Salon.com > Duggar family http://www.salon.com Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Why did the Duggars photograph a stillborn baby? http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/why_did_the_duggars_photograph_a_stillborn_baby/ http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/why_did_the_duggars_photograph_a_stillborn_baby/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10473371 When the Duggar family announced last week that the baby Michelle was carrying had died in utero, it seemed the Internet couldn't have any less sympathy toward the fertile-to-a-fault brood. Commenters right here on Salon called them "an obscenity" who are "unfairly crowding the planet with [their] disgusting obsession" and "selfish, polluting choices," who were, in essence, "asking for it." Then the Duggars really ticked people off.

Making good on their promise to both name and hold a memorial for the baby, the Duggars had a service Wednesday for the child they named Jubilee Shalom Duggar. At it, they shared a card that read "There is no foot too small that it cannot leave an imprint on the world" that featured a photo of the baby's tiny feet, and another one of "Michelle holding Jubilee's hand."

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