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  • 2017-08-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Is an Australian Company Turning Human Embryos Into Jewelry? (en)
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  • On 9 June 2017, click bait web sites posted stories reporting that an Australian company called Baby Bee Hummingbirds has been selling jewelry made from human fetuses, outraging the anti-abortion community. The story is accompanied by a gory photograph of a model wearing a large earring in the shape of a fetus: The story is factual, but the photograph is very misleading. An Australian business named Baby Bee Hummingbirds has indeed created a line of jewelry in which parents treated with in vitro fertilization procedures can have unused embryos cremated and incorporated in jewelry like bracelets, earrings and pendants. But the display image of a woman wearing a large fetus as an earring is altered (very obviously, and rather sloppily). Baby Bee Hummingbirds doesn't make any such item. The original image can be found on various online shopping outlets, and was used to sell the gold-colored choker necklace worn by the model. The fetus earring was superimposed on the original. The pieces sold by Baby Bee Hummingbird are far more subdued, generally including a crystal or opal-like stone in which cremated loved one's ashes can be incorporated, company founder Amy McGlade confirmed in an e-mail to us: In a longer Facebook post published in April 2017 to the company's official page, a representative wrote: The jewelry first came to the public's attention via a 3 May 2017 story published by the Australian parenting blog KidSpot, which interviewed McGlade and a family that purchased her jewelry after struggling over the decision about what to do with their unused IVF embryos. As the company's web site notes, jewelry can also be made from other organic materials like breast milk, placentas, umbilical cord stumps and first teeth. The KidSpot story did touch off a round of outrage, and was aggregated by a large number of anti-abortion web sites. Although the sensational and doctored image shared by Bunker Buster News is fake and the story itself seems outlandish, it is indeed true that the company is incorporating cremated embryo ashes in jewelry. (en)
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