Additionally, I believe it made it so she didn’t quite grow so much, so she was littler & weighted less making it easier for the caregivers to move her around...

From the previous reporting on Jez of the story; she gave birth of a (miraculously) healthy baby boy, who will be raised by her family. I usually think it’s highly unethical to deliberately hide a person’s origins from them, but if they tell that kid that her mother / sister / whoever is his birth mother and he never…

I believe a read story on this website that said she was able to interact with people and display some emotion.

I think people really underestimate the prevalence of this sort of abuse, especially in homes for the elderly. 

One thing I haven’t been able to decipher from all of these reports; how cognisant is the patient? I understand she is nonverbal, but is she able to process what is happening in front of her? (I’m so sorry if I am using awful terminology, please correct me)

For profit healthcare creates this type of systematic carelessness and horrifying outcomes. There are no background checks on these types of caregivers.

A couple years ago I read an article about “pillow angel” surgery to prevent an severely handicapped child from entering puberty and thus never exhibit secondary sex characteristics. I remember expecting to be appalled but, after reading that parents feared abuse if their children ended up in nursing homes after the…

Right. It’s also objectively correct moral advice. All you have to do is decide which you care more about, you own sense of morals or your investment portfolio. 

An embryo at 6-8 weeks is not a person, not a child, not even a fetus. It has no “heartbeat” because there is no heart. It doesn’t feel pain. If you are a Christian who believes that life begins at conception, then you also have to believe that God lets over 50% of human life die, as half of fertilized eggs fail to…

He could be the first guy, or the home was a magnet for predators due to lack of regulations and she was assaulted for years.  Both scenarios are horrifying.

How many other people were abused at this facility?!? This was clearly a systemic issue, and the likelihood she was the only one assaulted is virtually nil. I can’t even imagine how her parents are coping with this information.

Do we know no one visited her within three months of the birth? Because I wasn’t showing at all (still wearing the same non-stretch jeans, and I have a slender frame) until the beginning of the sixth month, and didn’t move from “is she pregnant, or just putting on a little weight?” until several weeks later. And I…

Yeah. For the doctors to be able to tell that she was multiparous, she would have had to had pregnancies that went pretty far, if not all the way full term. Were those late miscarriages/stillbirths? Second trimester abortions? Did those kids get born and sold, a la Georgia Tann?

When you start supporting causes to end murder outside the womb, you can start legitimately talking about murder inside the womb.

I didn’t I read it as giving birth in the past but that she had been previously pregnant and maybe miscarried or possibly even given an abortifacient without the family’s knowledge.

As if they have a plan to increase conviction rates for rapists!

Literally the first thing that I thought of. Jack Nicholson asking “...what’s with all the turtlenecks? It’s the middle of summer?”

I went in once on a pleasant Saturday afternoon and the place was deserted. I had just come from Everlane and Glossier - which were both packed beyond capacity and decimated in stock - so the contrast was pretty stark. I mean the clothing is elegant and well-curated, but I feel like the type of person who has the…

I live in the Bible Belt and yes, there’s a widespread belief that women are weak/stupid/ignorant, don’t know what’s best for them, and need to be protected. And there’s a widely-held belief that most women who have abortions are traumatized and regretful for life, even though studies have shown that the vast majority…

Exactly what do these people pregnancy and childbirth is like? That it’s like having a pillow under your shirt for a few months, then the water breaks, you huff and puff a few times and you have a baby?