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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
I looked it up because i just had to know more, apparently its a real defect that effects somwhere around one in a million people. Usually they only live a few hours after birth. The eyelids are inverted and the skin is very thick and scaley and ristricts breathing. Its called harlequin ichthyosis.
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Yup, harlequin fetus is a very real, very disgusting birth defect, but wouldn't it be rad if one survived to adulthood?
back in the day they would have just left that thing on the side of a mountain and burnt the mother at the stake.