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Did they do the right thing and is it done tastefully? The left is very upset by this act and have come out in opposition to the Dugger family for posting pictures of their stillborn baby online. In my observation, the Duggers have not done anything wrong or distasteful but still, the commentary by those who favor abortion are having a fit over this and are treating the Duggers harshly with aweful comments. What say you?
When the Duggar family announced last week that the baby Michelle was carrying had died in utero, it seemed the Internet couldn’t have any less sympathy toward the fertile-to-a-fault brood. Commenters right here on Salon called them “an obscenity” who are “unfairly crowding the planet with [their] disgusting obsession” and “selfish, polluting choices,” who were, in essence, “asking for it.” Then the Duggars really ticked people off.
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Last edited by CaseyB; 12-19-2011 at 02:29 PM..
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This is not a "left" or "righ" political issue. Is is disturbing to alot of people. Men and women of both political parties. Do the Duggers have the right to have a memorial anyway they would like? Yes they do. Do they have the right to post such a sad and I would think private event for all the world to see? Yes they do. Does that make it morally correct? I think not.
Bad things happen to good people....capitalizing on that event takes it to a whole new reason.
I don't care if the Duggars want to post pics of their baby's corpse; we've seen a lot worse. What I wonder is - did they give the cousin permission to tweet the photos? It seems disrespectful to me to distribute photos to the world in that way.
It really isn't that odd. Youtube stillborn babies and you'll see hundreds of videos of families doing similar things. In my own family there have been pictures taken of stillborn babies, it's just one way of dealing with the grief.
It's odd to read that the fetus is loved and missed. How can you love and miss someone who was not even born yet, whom you have never met yet, who you know nothing about yet?
If they want to take pictures of the baby, I get it--people take pictures of family members in coffins. I wouldn't do it, but that's me. I just don't understand why you would want to share them with the public. That's the part that I find a little strange. People deal with grief in lots of different ways...
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