Anti-Abortion Pro-Lie Blogger
Becca Beushausen wrote about her pregnancy about how she knew her baby had holoprosencephaly but that she refused to consider abortion. Her blog became a magnet for the foetus fetishers.
In just a few short months, hundreds of thousands of readers driven to the site from other anti-abortion and religious sites praised the mother for her strength and her devout Christian faith.
At first “B” or “April’s Mom,” the monikers the anonymous blogger used, asked only for her readers’ prayers. And they came in droves; not just from readers caught up in a riveting real life drama, or from Christians who celebrated her story as an anti-abortion parable, but from mothers of sick and dying children who wanted to commiserate and lend their support.
But soon, April’s Mom asked for more than just prayers. She posted a P.O. Box, to which readers could send gifts or money and on the side of the page where there was once only a form for submitting well-prayers emerged a list of advertisements.
And eventually the whole thing turned out to be hoax
But it was the photo of baby April Rose, posted for a moment and then taken down, that would unravel the intricate weeks-long lie.
“It wasn’t a photo of a baby at all,” said Elizabeth Russell, a mother and maker of lifelike Reborn Dolls, “It was a doll. I have that same doll.”
“I’ve made that doll enough times that there was no mistaking it. I couldn’t believe what she was trying to pull. It’s outrageous that she would manipulate people like that,” said Russell, a 31-year-old mother of two from Buffalo, N.Y.”
Well my goodness, faked stories, faked pictures, differing morality for thee and me…. has a familiar ring to it. I can’t image why the Pro-Lie crowd is so upset. Maybe it is just that she did what they do but did it so much better.
