Dead Woman Used As An Incubator

 

Adriana Smith

Pregnant and looking as happy as can be in this photo: A nurse, Adriana Smith, from Georgia without any uncanny premonitions about her imminent fate as A Living Dead. Wonder what she would have felt, had she been aware of what was in stock for her and the child she was to bear and give birth, dead or alive. Would she have consented in being kept on life support after being declared brain dead in February 2025? Her family was against it, but didn't have any say in the matter, as the strict abortion laws of Georgia protected the unborn fetus, not her as the mother or her opinions.  Actually, the focus was on her uterus, not her as a person, and she had to give birth, whether dead or alive.  

She already was the mother of a beautiful and healthy son, and the doctors may have hoped that somehow the new baby would turn out to be like him, although born from a dead woman. At birth at 25 weeks on the 13th of June, 2025, the new baby, also a son, who was named Chance, was 1 pound and 13 ounces and not fully developed. Had his mother had the abortion, she ought to have had for medical reasons, he wouldn't have survived, but she would have had a new lease on life. As it was, now she was a dead woman, who had been exploited as a human incurbator, and being forced to give birth by a C-section didn't bring her back to life. She was a goner, no matter what, but her new son is still alive, and it has been said that he is doing all right, according to circumstances. What that means nobody seems to know, but the father of the child holds the custody so the child is still part of the family. 

A beautiful sight of a new born child with his/her mother. However, no matter how beautiful this sight is, it doesn't solve the ethical question of a case like the one of Adriana Smith. When "Roe v. Wade" so tragically was overthrown in the tRumpian Gender War, it opened up to controversial cases of "Fetus over Mother" where the pregnant woman in reality was turned into a human incurbator and nothing more. One might say that The State took possession of the female body and claimed it as a sort of "State Property", which opens up for totally insane situations. Also, plans of science and first and foremost SCIENCE FICTION were formed as new ideas to "save the human race"

Elon Musk was suspected of having someone work on robots which might carry and give birth to live human embryoes. As far as I know, these noallegations have not been proved, but he, being what and how he is, may very well have started something like that. If he hasn't done that, someone else may have, as succeeding in doing it would make the female upper-hand when it comes to reproduction non-existent. Someting which may be the dream scenario of many people/men.   

 

https://sfg.media/en/a/a-child-was-born-in-atlanta-to-a-woman-declared-brain-dead/ 

 

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10491701/ 

 

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-11529371/Could-BIRTHING-PODS-solve-Elon-Musks-fears-population-collapse.html 

 

Wikipedia 

 

 

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-artificial-womb-simulation-video-348593206360 

 

 

Rebelling Eyes

 

Some people grow rebelling eyes

such eyes come and go as they please

sometimes they even elope

only returning after gone blind

 

no matter what, blind or not, eyes they are

claiming whatever there is to see as their right

often blotting out the vision of seeing eyes

 

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Burglar Economics

 

In 1986, a young young man of 20, Christopher Knight, after completing an electronics course got a job of installing home alarms. However, all of a sudden he left what's called "civilization" and moved into the Maine forest to settle as a genuine hermit. Or put another way, this young boy disappeared without keeping contact to anybody from his former life, family, friends or colleagues. Also he didn't seek to get to know any of the people who crossed his way in the woods: No new acqaintances and no old ones for 27 years, but one can't say that he lived all by himself, as his means of survival was burglaries in the area where he lived: He didn't want to have anything to do with people, but he lived on them.

He simply stole his way, but I take it that he may have done some fishing and hunting, although it hasn't been mentioned by anybody. Anyway, he was unseen, but not quite unknown, as people noticed that their belongings had an uncanny way of disappearing. Had they seen his camp they might have found it lined with clothes and other objects that he had stolen from them. His nickname became the "North Pond Hermit", when he was caught in April 2013, but it might just as well have been something like e.g. "The Ghost of Maine Forest" because the people in that area knew that there was somebody unknown in the vicinity, as he stole their belongings, but as a rule they didn't see him. However, at one point the owner of a cabin saw him when he entered the house to steal, but he got away, an incident which of course also made his existence known to people.

When caught, he was sentenced to 7 months of jail for approximately 1000 burglaries. Also, he had to pay a retribution of $2,000. All in all, not exactly a tough sentence for what was ca. 40 burglaries a year as well as being "the elusive, scary guy of the woods". Anyway, his crimes might have been much worse as they could have included violence, which they didn't. He was no Ted Kaczynski, aka "The Una Bomber", no, he was just rather weird, and it's obvious that so was his mother. Genes don't lie, and people who had been her neighbours for 14 years said that she never spoke to them. The love of solitude obviously runs in the family.
 

Christopher Knight still prefers the quiet life by himself. He avoids journalists, sometimes works a little with his brother, but is still very secluded, living in his own world, so to speak.

 

https://medium.com/the-peculiar-truth/the-peculiar-truth-about-the-hermit-in-the-maine-woods-d6d089244c91 

 

https://wgme.com/news/local/7-years-after-his-capture-north-pond-hermit-documentary-now-streaming-for-free-online 

 

Wikipedia

 

Living The Secret Life of Someone Not Yet Born

 

When Dr. James Barry died in 1865 he had had an absolutely amazing career as a military surgeon: After obtaining his medical degree from The University of Edingburgh Medical School in 1812 he came to hold several fine posts in The British Empire. Also he stepped in to save non-military lives in the countries where he worked. One of the illnesses he targeted was leprosy, but he also performed the first recorded Caesarean Section by an European in Africa where both the mother and the child survived. Something which earned him a lot of acclaim. No doubt about it: He did very well in his profession even before he ended up in the quite high ranking position as the Inspector General of British Army hospitals. Everyone must have been in awe at this perfect career of an Irish-English gentleman, but at his death this image was torn apart by a fact that must have confused sex-role-believers of his time: A post mortem exam revealed without any doubt that "he" was in reality a "she". Biologically the distinguished doctor was a woman and not a man, although women weren't even allowed at the Medical School at the University until the year of Dr. Barry's death, and that was not because of him/her and his/her perfect career,  but this also vey illustrious lady: 

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Not that women by now were welcome at the university, but she did qualify as a physician by passing the Society of Apothecaries examination via a private study loophole. However, soon after this loophole was blocked to lock out other women who wanted to study Medicine. Women with "un-feminine" medical ambitions were not welcome in society, and it was a grave shock to people of that time to see that someone not-male like e.g. "Dr. James Barry" was able to have a perfect medical career although being a biological woman. 

So, WHO was this highly esteemed surgeon in reality? He/She was born Margaret Ann Bulkley Ireland in 1795. It is believed that Margaret suffered a rape at a very young age, and that she may have had an illigitimate daughter who was kept secret for many years, but who moved in with her as a teenager. The indication for this theory - and it is nothing but a theory - is that the body of Dr. Barry had "stretch marks" which are typical after giving birth. And then there was the so-called "sister" who came to live with her.

So very much is a mystery in the life of this remarkable individual, and I doubt that we shall ever know the full truth. Something which also goes for several of the other women who posed as men. Some of the names we know, but there may be many more that we don't know of ....

"Dr. Barry" succeeded in hiding his/her true identity for 56 years, which is absolutely amazing. He/She must have had an iron will to start something like this and then go on and on ....

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/how-history-keeps-ignoring-james-barry/

https://thackraymuseum.co.uk/journal/dr-james-barry-the-surgeon-defying-gender-norms/

https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/10.1308/rcsbull.2016.396

 

Wikipedia

 

 

 

Poem by EC: "Evilness Paid Me A Visit"

 

 

Evilness Paid Me A Visit

As so often before, Evilness came by 

"Hi there!" she said, waving a limp hand at me

Her well-done, pointed fingernails glinted red 

as did the drops trickling down from her teeth

 

Red on red, sharpness on sharpness 

Smiles that weren't SMILES

all of it spelled Evilness, as I know her

 

"Why don't you come to see me?" she said 

"I've some great new ideas of collaboration 

come on, let's get started and have some fun." 

 

Did I refuse out of cowardice, or was it bravery?

After all, putting up a stance isn't all that easy

when one is wooed by ever-powerful Evilness

 

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https://www.livescience.com/disease-root-of-evil-beliefs.html

Bloody Mary And Anne Askew

 

 

Mary I of England (1516–1558)

I always felt sorry for the daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife, Katherine (1485–1536), Mary I, because he wronged both of them in his steadfast pursuit of a living son. Not even producing said son, Edward VI (1537–1553),  secured what he wanted the most, i.e. the conservation of the Tudor name through heredity, because this coveted son died so very young. Henry's two daughters, namely Mary I and Elizabeth I (1533-1603), might have been able to re-establish the Tudor-dynasty, had the rules been different so that a girl didn't lose her birth name by marriage. Anyway, Elizabeth didn't marry, and none of them had children of their own. That means that the Tudor-name was absorbed by their relatives and heirs to the throne, the Stuarts. 

My reason for feeling sorry for Mary I is that I see her as someone, who always got the thick end of the rod, so to speak. It started with her parents: She was a firm Catholic, but her father abandoned the Catholic Church, establishing The Church of England (The Anglican Church). Also, he declared, his marriage to her mother void, which changed her status as a princess into an illegitimate daughter. All of that - as well as a lot more - must have been extremely traumatic to her. Normally, a king found appropriate spouses for his children at an early age, but somehow that didn't happen to Mary. She seems to have been almost forgotten by her father, and maybe that's why she fell so very deeply in love with her Spanish cousin, Philip (II), whom she did marry although everybody seemed to be against their marriage. They were married for four years, but her new husband only stayed with her in England for 15 months in all, which is quite telling. Her strong wishes to have a child - i.e. an heir who might reestablish The Catholic Faith and The Roman Catholic Church in England - came to nothing, although she believed that she was pregnant several times. I would say, that not many would have been able not to become frustrated, angry and maybe even revengeful under these circumstances. Maybe all of this personal adversity made the basis for her - to me - quite unexpected cruelty. I knew that she had almost 300 non-Catholics executed by burning them alive on the stake, and I also knew of her nickname "Bloody Mary", but somehow I didn't grasp the meaning of her misdeeds untill I read about the Protestant poet, Anne Askew. Not that Mary was the one who performed the torture or execution herself, but it sort of made these cruelties vivid to me: This was what that nickname meant. 

Anne Askew (1521–1546) was a convinced, passionate and well-read Protestant. She preached her beliefs, wrote poetry and all in all must have been a nuisance to some powerful people, one of these being her husband. When she left him he, who was a Roman Catholic like Mary I, found her and had her arrested for "heresy".  In Newgate she was tortured cruelly on the rack - "until her sinews snapped" - but still she refused to give the names of other Protestants or to denounce her beliefs. 

After this cruel torture she was burnt on the stake, but the picture of that is not depicting it as it was: She wasn't able to stand up and had been carried on a chair from the prison to the place of execution. As far as I know, Mary didn't expect every "heretic" to be tortured this cruelly, but the fact that it happened to Anne Askew in her name makes me wonder at her and the impression I've had of her until now. 

Yes, both of them were victims to circumstances of the time period as well as of men, and I find the fate of both Mary and Anne quite tragic. Also all of this makes me think of how religion still works havoc in 2026. 

Anne Askew's Ballad from when she was in Newgate

By Anne Askew

 

Like as the armed knight

Appointed to the field,

With this world will I fight

And Faith shall be my shield.

Faith is that weapon strong

Which will not fail at need.

My foes, therefore, among

Therewith will I proceed.

As it is had in strength

And force of Christes way

It will prevail at length

Though all the devils say nay.

Faith in the fathers old

Obtained rightwisness

Which make me very bold

To fear no world's distress.

I now rejoice in heart

And Hope bid me do so

For Christ will take my part

And ease me of my woe.

Thou saist, lord, who so knock,

To them wilt thou attend.

Undo, therefore, the lock

And thy strong power send.

More enmyes now I have

Than hairs upon my head.

Let them not me deprave

But fight thou in my stead.

On thee my care I cast.

For all their cruel spight

I set not by their haste

For thou art my delight.

I am not she that list

My anchor to let fall

For every drizzling mist

My ship substancial.

Not oft use I to wright

In prose nor yet in rime,

Yet will I shew one sight

That I saw in my time.

I saw a rial throne

Where Justice should have sit

But in her stead was one

Of moody cruel wit.

Absorpt was rightwisness

As of the raging flood

Sathan in his excess

Suct up the guiltless blood.

Then thought I, Jesus lord,

When thou shalt judge us all

Hard is it to record

On these men what will fall.

Yet lord, I thee desire

For that they do to me

Let them not taste the hire

Of their iniquity.

Copyright Credit: The lattre examinacyon of Anne Askewe, latelye martyred in Smythfelde, by the 

 

 

 

Wikipedia 

 

https://www.poemhunter.com/anne-askew/ 

 

 

Poem by Else Cederborg: "Lost in Togetherness"

 

Lost in Togetherness

 

Starry -Eyed, walking together

Hand in hand

I hold you, and you hold me

Somehow, still quite lost

 

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