Mother of Courage published a series of photographs of her 14-week-old fetus to prove he was a "real child" after doctors forced her to abort and said her stomach was "medical waste."
According to The Sun newspaper, Sharan Sutherland, 40, has taken a number of traumatic images of the fetus (3 أشهر months) after abortion, and is in the process of growing.
The length of the fetus is 10 centimeters and weighs only 26 grams. He can, through the images, see his full face, hands and feet.
The embryo was kept for a week in the refrigerator, before being buried under a bush in the house.
In some US states, children are not legally classified as "infants" until the age of 20 weeks (5 months).
This means that the doctors got rid of the child because they considered it a "medical waste," as they describe it, but Sharan's maternal passion rejected that expression and prompted her to take pictures of her deceased baby.
Despite the "disaster", Sharan says she is "grateful" because she got a chance to see her baby before he bid farewell.
"Everything was fine, I touched his ears, his tongue and lips. I do not know what happened," said the mother, from Missouri.
Doctors urged Sharan to abort her baby after the ultrasound showed his heart had stopped beating.
