I really have no idea what to say to this except what the FUCK were these people thinking?
Forget the fact that the girl was 14, who the hell gives a woman who just went through the pain of a miscarriage their child to take home in a specimen bottle?
:eek:
Is this part of that “No Child Left Behind” thing I keep hearing about? :eek:
I thought what the mom said was a bit telling:
The mom just lost her baby the article stated… It makes me wonder if the girl tried to get pregnant on purpose to fill the void. 
It’s quite possible, stpauler. I don’t think it’s good she was pregnant at 14, but I can’t imagine the pain she’s in right now having lost a child and this happening
This is way, way worse than bonsaikitten.com.
Especially since that’s, you know, fake.
If they can’t incinerate the fetus, they should at least use it for medical students.
This would be more understandable if it happened at a Catholic hospital that refused to perform abortions or in, say, Florida. Then it could be related to their belief that life begins at conception and that all people deserve the Christian burial and all that nonsense. But a London hospital with no mentioned relgious affiliation? Beggars belief.
Jeez…
Methinks someone needs to lose their job over this. Or get a good flogging, at least.
::snork::
I shouldn’t be laughing.
I shouldn’t be laughing.
I shouldn’t be laughing.
Shame on us both. 
Make that three of us. It’s so wrong to laugh but I couldn’t help it.
Shame on me as well Dogzilla
Has this sort of thing ever happened befor? Is it part of the procedure to ask the mother if she wants to keep the dead Foetus, in the same way they might ask if someone wants to keep the tumour that is removed from them?
I guess there may be a system that allows someone to religiously burry a failed fetus to help them deal with their grief. Still this was not the thing this girl wanted to happen in this case, and systems need to be fixed and people chastised to see this doesn’t happen again. Still, I wouldn’t want to see someone lose their job over this, since that person would be a medically skilled person who could save many lives in the future, whilst this is very upsetting, no-one was endangered by it.
Man! And to think, my dentist wouldn’t even let me keep my wisdom teeth after he yanked them!
Life happens, Death happens, why are we shielded from it? Is making death clinical and removed from our everyday lives helping or hurting society and humanity?
This is real life folks, miscarriages happen, deaths happen, we would like to think otherwise, but it’s not reality. Maybe not letting the mother (underaged or not) see the miscarriaged baby would lead to more respect for human life.
Well I guess since they couldn’t use it for live organ donations they decided to give it to her. Silly Brits.
“Beats me how they did it, but I got the whole thing at a garage sale for only $5, and that includes the stand.”
Yet another person whose first thought on reading the thread title was Gary Larson. We’re sick, sick people…
Indeed…
Some months ago my grandmother died, would it be OK if the doctors had told me to take its preserved body home with me? I´d really would have appreciated the value of (her) live much more then. :rolleyes:
So, correct me if I’m wrong, you are implying that having a misscariage is due to not having enough respect for human life and showing this girl her dead baby would somehow make her value life more? Talk about tough love…‘See hear young lady’ [thrusts feotus in a bottle at her] ‘THIS is what happens when you don’t take precautions, now you just take this home and think about that for a while madam!’
With a stillbirth? I would imagine normally yes, provisions are made in case the family wishes to bury it. Burying stillborn children (you know, with a funeral and everything, as though they’re actual people) is fairly common. I mean, not to sound all ‘respect for human life’ and shit (because I have very little of it) but it’s not strange that the hospital would offer the remains to the family. It’s quite usual to grieve after a stillbirth, and to the family it’s not just a ‘tumor’ - the formalized grieving rituals we use are helpful to a lot of folks, religious or no.
However, handing a specimen bottle full of dead baby to a fourteen year old girl is clearly grossly inappropriate, and someone’s ass should probably get fired for it. I don’t think that’s how it’s normally done. And it would be rather freaky to reach into the fridge for a diet coke and see a bottled baby looking back at you. 
“Baby in a bottle” would be a great band name!