This news story is a very odd one. I have bolded the bits that are attention-worthy:
Police are searching for the mother of a small fetus found by utility workers at a sewage pump station Monday in Morgantown, W.Va.
The fetus will be sent to the state medical examiner's office in Charleston for an autopsy to determine race, sex and age.
Morgantown police said a worker whose job it is to check screens at the pump station found the fetus during his daily routine Monday morning.
The fetus was so small that police don't yet know if a crime was committed or if the mother had a miscarriage.
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It's likely the fetus was flushed down a toilet, Green said.
Authorities were trying to locate the mother of the unborn child to learn what happened.
The story doesn't tell us the actual size of the fetus, only that it was bigger than three-quarters of an inch and therefore stopped by the screens.
But note the language of the story. I couldn't stop thinking how in some future dystopia all women must prove monthly that they are not pregnant, and when something of this sort happens there will probably be pelvic examinations for all women who were found pregnant in the previous month.
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Link via halfdan on Eschaton threads.