When we erase women in our images of pregnancy, we erase how women feel and what they need physically and emotionally. When we erase women, we can more easily ignore their rights and the enormous costs they bear when they bring new humans into the world. Our legal and ethical considerations still do not address adequately women’s experiences of being both one and two (or more) at the same time, and images depicting growing fetuses as separate individuals perpetuate that problem. For the record, being treated like a fetal container is enraging.
