[Gay State Conservative]

Yes ago,when I was a mere kid,I got a job working for a pathologist at a large,very well known,hospital. One day my duties took me to the department's autopsy room. Being a teaching hospital the autopsy room's floors and walls were filled with vessels of various sizes containing organs of various sizes.

On the floor were large vessels containing hearts,lungs,livers,brains,etc. On the walls were smaller ones containing smaller things.One of the vessels caught my eye.

It was a large pickle jar type of thing containing about a half dozen fetuses in a clear liquid...probably formalin. It was before Roe v Wade so I assume they were stillborn. They were all about the size of my thumb and they were all *perfectly* formed.There was no way to mistake them for anything other than tiny little human beings.I could see one of them so clearly that I could tell that he/she needed his/her fingernails clipped.

That was about 50 years ago...and it's an image that will stay with me for the rest of my life.

[fuzzylogic]

Capturing that in a photo would be instrumental (inside jar). It displays scale...and detail. ...powerful, I’ve never pictured it at that level. Thanks for sharing.