'Either they think we are stupid, or readers don't deserve factual information'
By Laurel Duggan
Daily Caller News Foundation
The Guardian published images of gestational tissue from the first 9 weeks of pregnancy without clarifying that the embryo had been removed, giving the impression that no embryo was present, an OB-GYN told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The article showed eight photos of the gestational sac — a thin, white tissue that supports a pregnancy — and suggested first trimester abortions only removed this tissue in a Wednesday article titled “What a pregnancy actually looks like before 10 weeks – in pictures.” The embryos had been removed from the tissue, according to OB-GYN Christina Francis, but the article made no mention of that.
“Each of the images in the article show a gestational sac but clearly the embryonic and fetal human beings have been removed from the images,” Francis told the DCNF. “Open any human embryology textbook and you will see that the images in the Guardian article do not reflect the reality of human development. Either the Guardian and the physician quoted in the article think that we are stupid, or they don’t believe their readers deserve to have factual information.”
The sources quoted in the article undermined the notion that fetuses in the first nine weeks of pregnancy look human.
“[Abortion patients are] expecting to see a little fetus with hands – a developed, miniature baby.” Dr. Joan Fleischman, a member of the part of the MYA Network which supplied the photos, told the DCNF. “They feel they’ve been deceived.”