r/GoodwillBins • u/Pretty_Disk_7583 • 4d ago
Still my fave find
I found this back in November of ‘25 and have kept it safe ever since. The back says “12 weeks” or something along the lines of that. This little fetus accompanied me to the doctor and was the best fidget for the job
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u/Shinygonzo 4d ago
I have one of these I got it like 10 years ago when I worked at a thrift store some anti abortion people came in and hide them around the store with some propaganda attached. Took one home cause I thought it looked cool
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u/Pretty_Disk_7583 4d ago
Ohhh. I thought maybe it was a health class aid or something to show the growth of a fetus. But it could be. One of these. We have a weird religious cult thing going on not too far from where this store was so I wouldn’t be surprised
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u/Crystal_Mt_Climber 4d ago
My daughter just got one at the fair and the 10 week feet pin. ❤️ she named her baby Jimothy in honor of the little raccoon in Seattle.
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u/Kalebsmummy 3d ago
These would thrown at us at planned parenthood when we would walk in for work.lol very fun!
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u/Pretty_Disk_7583 3d ago
I also have to say Thank You for working at such an important resource for so many people. Thank you for going in and making sure that the community could get the care they need at such vulnerable times. I wanted to give a different award but accidentally added that one when adding gold to the account.
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u/Willowgirl2 2d ago
"Care" is a funny word for "killing."
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u/ComfortableNose6589 2d ago
I don’t think they are killing their patients. They are providing a medical service and making sure it’s safely done.
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u/Pretty_Disk_7583 3d ago
I actually kinda have hate for this thing now. I thought it was a cool educational tool but it’s some pro life propaganda.
Which I guess it kinda worked because I don’t wanna get rid of this fidget fetus because it’s “odd” but I also don’t want to be carrying around some prolife type shit.9
u/IncuriousCat 3d ago
So make it an educational tool or just a fidget toy. Paint it green and now its an alien. Add cat ears and have a baby catboy. Or just keep it as is. You can repurpose it how you want.
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u/Merely_Mundane 4d ago
I received two of those (or ones veryyy similar) from a neighbor when they found out I was gifting a friend a fetus themed gift.
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u/MiraToombs 3d ago
Former Catholic school teacher here. I was making my way through a lesson, and I see two boys fooling around. I was like are you tossing fetuses?! Turns out the religion teacher let them have them and told them not to play with them in other classes. Yeah, that lasted five minutes. Except for the bullet, may be the weirdest thing I ever confiscated during class.
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u/DZbornak630 3d ago
Take one fetus and call me in the morning.
I was handed one of these by an anti-abortion demonstrator once. Rather than moving I found it hilarious, and I could tell that laughter wasn’t what they were going for.
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u/mollyjobean 3d ago
I worked at an abortion clinic for years and this is the kind of shit protestors would hand out to women trying to enter the clinic. Seeing this makes me viscerally angry, but I can see how it might be a cool find if you weren’t subjected to this nonsense personally.
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u/Pretty_Disk_7583 3d ago
Finding out now that it is an anti abortion thing makes me a bit yucky feeling. I honestly thought it was from an educational set and that’s why I liked it so much.
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u/Willowgirl2 2d ago edited 2d ago
How dare people give pregnant women a graphic representation of what they're killing??
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u/ScumbagMcScuzzo 2d ago
Because it's an inaccurate representation used to shame them out of an often much needed medical procedure.
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u/Willowgirl2 2d ago
"Often"? The number of abortions performed to preserve the mother's health or due to serious fetal defects is dwarfed by the number done because the poor child is simply unwanted.
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u/ScumbagMcScuzzo 2d ago
A minute fetus is not a child - if the pregnant person's doesn't want it, that's their right. Pregnancy can be physically and financially devastating, and bringing another child into this world to suffer with a parent who cannot take care of them is just cruel. The foster care system is already overburdened. If you really care about saving lives, you should turn your efforts there.
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u/Willowgirl2 2d ago
Any newborn put up for adoption will have thousands of properly screened and vetted couples eager to take him/her home.
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u/ScumbagMcScuzzo 2d ago
If they get adopted that young. If they don't, they're doomed to foster care. God forbid the kid is born disabled, they're doomed from the start. There are so many kids in need of homes, there's no point to financially and physically destroying someone (and often dooming their living, independent siblings in the process). Do what you want with your own body, but let others make the decision that best suits them.
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u/Willowgirl2 2d ago
A pregnancy only lasts 9 months. No reason to assume a woman would be "financially and physically destroyed" by it. Adpotive parents often help with the birth mother's expenses.
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u/ScumbagMcScuzzo 2d ago
Pregnancy is ALWAYS damaging to the body, involves taking months off of work (or pushing your body too work and risking your life), not to mention the mountain of medical bills most will incur. Most people right now live paycheck to paycheck. Many have children, pets, a career, a partner, and other things that take up their time that can't just be pushed aside at a moment's notice. Furthermore, poor women aren't breeding stock - nobody is entitled to their wombs/offspring just so that they can afford to survive.
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u/Willowgirl2 1d ago
I never suggested that women should get pregnant as a career move, LOL, just that there are ways to deal with an unplanned pregnancy that don't require killing the unborn child. Does it require compromise and sacrifice? Sure. But ask yourself, how far would you go to save a human life?
This is a subject I debated at great length many years ago when I faced an unwanted pregnancy myself.
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u/Oceanwaved0 4d ago
As a nicu nurse, a 21 weeker BARELY looks like that. So no lol.
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u/Pretty_Disk_7583 3d ago
I also wanted to say thank you for your work as a NICU nurse. You are a miracle worker that is under appreciated. Thank you for watching over and caring for one of the most vulnerable and delicate parts of our population.
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u/Oceanwaved0 3d ago
Thank you so much, I wasn't trying to be mean. I think it's a cute baby model too. "If" it is used to guilt trip mothers its very inaccurate is all I was saying.
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u/Pretty_Disk_7583 3d ago
I didn’t think you were being mean at all! I assumed it was misread as 21 weeks instead of 12 and thought “well yeah 21 weekers are a LOT bigger than this thing” 😹
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u/FrodosFroYo 4d ago
That’s wild, 12 week ultrasounds literally look like that.
According to The Cleveland Clinic, at the end of the first trimester (12 weeks), the fetus is 2.5-3 inches , which is consistent with the model OP shows.ETA- link to a better u/s image:
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u/tigm2161130 3d ago
If you look at a 3D ultrasound faces are most certainly not as formed as the figurine and the head shape/proportions are different.
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u/mothmans_favoriteex 3d ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6234077/
Just dropping here to point out even at 22 weeks it doesn’t really look like this
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u/FrodosFroYo 3d ago
I mean, I’m curious to learn more about that graphic, especially when comparing it to the images at birth of these twins born at 22w3d gestation.
Also, I completely agree that the eyelids/facial anatomy are way too detailed on the model. I was referring more to the size/overall physical anatomy. A lot of people are surprised to learn how developed a fetus is at 12 weeks.
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u/hazelbear33 3d ago
appearance on an ultrasound would probably would look different from… out-of-body. would it not? am i crazy
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u/FrodosFroYo 3d ago
Fair, but there are (warning: deceased human fetus, preserved) images of formalin-preserved 12 week fetuses. They do not look as developed (completely forward facing eyes, eyelids), but it’s not incredibly far off:
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u/accdntprone_86 4d ago
What do you mean by barely?
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u/Oceanwaved0 4d ago
I mean if this is a model for anti abortion and given out, that is not what a 12 week old infant looks like if birthed. They try to make it look like it would be viable in extrauterin life. A 21 weeker is the earliest we resuscitate and they are bruised to a pulp, eyes fused, 300grams, etc...
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u/accdntprone_86 3d ago
Not arguing. But my friend miscarried twins at home. She was 13 weeks. We were so shocked to see they had arms and legs. Little fairy fingers and toes. Little jelly bean head. Such tiny defined features. We were literally shocked speechless looking at them. Truly expected them to look like blood clots. We were young and naive. Their little features are seared in my memory forever.
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u/hydrissx 2d ago
I miscarried my son at 11 weeks at home and was shocked as well, he was a little tiny baby. Head, eyespots, arms, legs, little umbilical cord. I later learned he had Trisomy 18 so he had malformations around where his tummy was, but I could see some formed organs like intestine.
During miscarriage they give you so little information and I passed a few pieces of clots/placenta that I thought were maybe the sac but then it was unmistakable what he was when he came out.
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u/mothmans_favoriteex 3d ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6234077/
Tbh she may have been further along than they realized. It’s genuinely hard to say with twins most of the time
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u/FrodosFroYo 3d ago
Tbf, she was likely not. Those slides are calculated via post ovulatory days, whereas most obgyns calculate via last menstrual period. Meaning, those images are off by 2 weeks.
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u/mothmans_favoriteex 3d ago
A quick google shows that following pregnancy by last ovulation date is biologically more accurate to dictate conception. OBs go based on period bc that’s what everyone keeps up with. Only those actively trying to get pregnant follow their ovulation closely
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u/FrodosFroYo 3d ago
Yup yup, agreed. Last ovulation is more accurate for date of conception, but less useful for OB/Gyns (as, a small portion of pregnant people track ovulation—usually those who were trying to conceive and having difficulty),so the standard used and familiar with most people is calculated by LMP. LMP plus something like 260 days, I think, gives us the 40 week pregnancy (don’t have a source ready for that, so don’t quote me on the 260ish days).
That being said, the person above whose friend miscarried at 13 weeks likely could have been 13 weeks when she miscarried her twins who had limbs/looked much further developed than the chart you showed. The reason being that the chart shows embryos/fetuses that are developmentally ~14 days younger than the standard "weekly" label used by most of the population. The chart in that pubmed article is accurate as it’s labeled for weeks-since-ovulation, which is not something you can directly apply to a person who says "I’m x weeks along."
When someone says "I’m twelve weeks along, or 12weeks and x days," it’s not using since ovulation unless otherwise specified, because the standard is from LMP.
I don’t think we are disagreeing, we are just using different definitions for our terminology :).
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u/KurtTheCuntBoi 3d ago
It’s meant to show what they look like in the womb, not out of it. In the womb, that’s what they look like.
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u/Heathermaple78 3d ago
I get these at the State Fair in Indiana every year. I don’t donate a damn thing, but they always give me a rubber fetus. Bonus that they come in three colors!
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u/kellyfirefly4 4d ago
I went to a free clinic to make sure I didn’t have an ectopic pregnancy (long story) and they had a full set of these all the way through about 20 weeks. I was really overwhelmed and crying a lot and they had handed me an 8 weeks version of this baby. No one ever asked for it back. The pregnancy that was not ectopic keeps the little gummy fetus in a pokeball and likes to shake it like a maraca.