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Abortion and Pickled Punks

Feb 18, 2010 1:08AM PST

I wonder if malformed, or preemie babys still find themselves into pickling jars for display, especially where the Abortion industry has a hold? Read about the Stone Child too in link below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickled_punks

Pickled punks is the carny term for human fetuses preserved in jars of formaldehyde and used as sideshow attractions. Most pickled punks display some sort of anatomical abnormality, such as conjoined twins or polycephaly; however, the deformities present are as varied as the nature of human inflictions.

The practice of preserving and displaying prodigious births is centuries old. In the 1600s King Frederick III of Denmark had a personal collection of punks numbering in the thousands. Ulisse Aldrovandi, an Italian naturalist, had a collection consisting of eighteen thousand various specimens.

The classic pickled punk, floating in a jar of preserving fluid, became most popular during the golden age of sideshows and experienced a great resurgence in the 1950s and 1960s.

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