Well, this is one of the creepiest things I've seen lately

[layla]

It took me a while to figure out if this website was a joke or not. (I'm pretty sure it's real. But still not 100% convinced.)

http://www.homestead.com/godslittleones/micropreemies.html

They're pro-life "micropreemie" (a.k.a. fetus) dolls. Now, regardless of where you stand on the whole issue of whether life begins at birth, conception, quickening or wherever, I don't think anyone can deny that the human fetus, baby or not, is really freaking creepy looking. It trips our whole sense of "human, but not quite human, AAIIEEE!" And thumb-sized plastic fetuses dressed in baby clothes are, frankly, about ten times as creepy-looking as they would be in their natural environment.

Here's the main page, FYI.

Comments

[ndgmtlcd.livejournal.com]

It could be more interesting still if they made the earlier ones real big. When I read your post I was hoping, before I clicked on the link, for something looking like Dave Bowman at the end of 2001, a space Odyssey. I'd love to have a "doll" like that. I'd put him/her/it on my desk at the office, without baby clothes, of course. I deal with people involved in biotechnology, epidemiology and related matters.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

for something looking like Dave Bowman at the end of 2001, a space Odyssey

A huge fetus doll would be an AWESOME desk ornament! It might have the added benefit of making anybody who didn't really, really NEED to talk to you think twice about it, too. ;)