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Has anyone ever heard this phrase , Child of the Bier ?
I remember reading an article that defined this phenomena . It is about some cultures that claim to be able to postpone pregnancy when the father dies and the mother is with child. The mother is passed over the funeral bier ( Bier, a platform upon which a coffin is placed ) with the deceased father on it and it reportedly puts the pregnancy on hold until the pregnant widow is able to care for the child.
The comments by Senate candidate Akins brought this back from when ever I read it.
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- RELv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
That practice would be useful in justifying a pregnancy that began after the father died, just as Akin's malarkey is useful in trying to justify a cruel law that would force a raped woman to carry her attacker's child to term. I remember years ago when Dan Quayle was campaigning, he was interviewed by a 12-year-old girl reporter, probably thinking it would be easy and cute. She asked him, are you against abortion under any and all circumstances? Yes, dear, he said patronizingly. Then she left him literally speechless with the following question: Do you mean to say that if my father were to rape me and make me pregnant, you would force me to carry and give birth to my own sibling? She hit him with the triple whammy: child victim, rape and incest. He turned bright red.
