Viewers last night of the interview with President Bush on NBC might have wondered something that has crossed my mind several times over the past 24 hours.
Why did Barbara Bush keep a fetus in a jar after her miscarriage?
George W. Bush reveals his mother showed him a fetus in a jar after her miscarriage. Undoubtedly the most startling moment in Matt Lauer’s conversation with George W. Bush came in the first five minutes of the interview, when Bush recounted his mother’s miscarriage—and how she had showed him the fetus in a jar.
“She says to her teenage kid, ‘Here’s a fetus,'” Bush recounted to Lauer, referring to himself in the third person. “There’s no question that it affected me,” Bush added.
Well I would think so.
During a mostly friendly back-and-forth on the younger Bush’s time in office, it was a bizarre revelation, and Lauer quickly steered the former president to the more policy-related question of what bearing the episode might have had on his pro-life position while the oddity of the story itself was left unexplored.
The episode helped him bond with his mother, Bush insisted on NBC’s Today show Monday. In his memoir, Decision Points, which Lauer read from, Bush wrote: “I never expected to see the remains of the fetus, which she had saved in a jar to bring to the hospital.”
Bush’s recounting of the incident was brief, and Lauer did not press for logistics, leaving some questions unanswered, including who put the fetus in a jar? Where is it now? And why did Barbara decide to preserve her unborn child in a jar—and then show her son?
Is it still in a jar?
This was a nugget of a story that was so strange it demanded more questions. Why Lauer did not follow up is a mystery.
What are group therapy rates for the families of ex-presidents?
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Why Did Barbara Bush Keep A Fetus In A Jar After Miscarriage?
In case she got hungry later, why else?
Um, that’s kind of a sick comment about eating the fetus. Just sayin’…
Here is one possible explanation. My mother did the same thing in the 1970s because she had to save it to take to the doctor’s office. It has to be kept in water so it would stay moist and the doctor could check it. I was told they had to make sure the entire baby came out, and if it had, she wouldn’t need a DNC. I remember the baby was perfect and even had fingers and toes. It’s hard to see a baby that small and not realize it’s a little person even in the early stages of a pregnancy. I was about seven I think, but I still remember the situation. She kept the jar on the top of the refrigerator. When we asked about it she showed all of us the baby brother or sister we almost had. We called him Matthew. She didn’t bring the fetus home from the doctor’s office.
What’s the matter…no jar big enough to put George? It would have been so much better for USA had he been preserved.
Your comment is excellent!