Fetus cookies (photo: Hogmalion) |
One company offers Roe v. Wade enthusiasts an unusual way to celebrate the Supreme Court's abortion ruling – with fetus-shaped cookies.
Hogmalion sells "Fetal Bites: America's #1 Fetus Cookie Cutter" for $10 on its website.
A person identified only as "Big Pig" claimed to have found inspiration for the cookie cutter a decade ago.
"Well, I baked up the first batch for an old girlfriend about 10 years ago," the person said. "We were celebrating the 25th anniversary of Roe v. Wade."
"Big Pig" continued, "They were tasty little devils, and I just sort of fell in love with 'em. You know, the same way that proud parents have the ability to look at one of their children – no matter what kind of bestial rakehell it was that actually sprung from their loins – and sincerely feel that there's some clearing off to do on the refrigerator door, some bragging to be done."
The company motto is "Pearls for Swine," and its website displays photos of several curled fetus cookies with black dots for eyes.
The site, registered to Jason Higgins of Baltimore, Md., features a package of wine corks with faces of Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, labeled "The Four Corksmen of the Apocalypse." It also sells "Christ Butter" and Obama novelty items – with 10 percent of proceeds going to Amy Goodman in support of Democracy Now.
Fetus cookie cutter |
"I like to consider the Fetal Bites simply as early-stage gingerbread men," "Big Pig" said. "Is there a statement behind them? Not really. Of course, some folks feel the need to attach a statement to absolutely everything. I think Freud said it best (and this may or may not be the exact quote), 'Sometimes a fetus cookie cutter is just a fetus cookie cutter.'"
Many people posted online reactions to the fetus-shaped cookies, including the following:
- These are one of the most terrible things I've ever seen
- I thought they were aliens until I read the title. Yuck! There is something quite disturbing about eating anything fetus shaped.
- Normally this would gross me out but I really got a good giggle out of them. I wouldn't say I'm gaga over them but I'm not gagging either.
- I actually thought these were kind of funny if they're not taken too seriously. Someone with the right sense of twisted humor might really like these at her shower.
- It is a natural, normal stage of gestation. They look like cute baby aliens. Normally, I would have find it quirky, but the anti-choice movement's bombardment of graphic fetus imagery in some of their media campaigns has burned a bad picture association in my head.