A fetus was reportedly found yesterday morning at the entrance of the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros, Manila.
The male fetus, estimated to be three to four months old, was discovered by security guard Joy Galara in a flower pot at the entrance of the church.
Galara told Police Officer Erwin Castro he was doing the rounds of the church at around 10:45 a.m. when he smelled a foul odor.
He said he traced the scent to a flowerpot at the entrance of the church and when he looked inside, he found the fetus. The police brought the fetus to the Universal Funeral parlor. – Nestor Etolle, Philippine Star
The term 'fetus' is referred for an embryologically developing human in the womb of the mother. The age of the child, being 3 to 4 months indicates that the fetus was 16 weeks old, meaning that the cause of the primordial abortion was embryological complications.
The 12-20 week range is the critical time for developing humans. Any death of the fetus is a sign of chromosomal non-disjunction and or the presence of the mother's immune antigen-antibody complex being hostile to the embryo.
It is very common, for poor industrializing countries, for women who are RH-negative responding immunologically with a fetus that is RH-positive, resulting in the monocytic-macrophage defense mechanism attacking the RH-positive fetus. This is called HDN, or defined as Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn.
Or as we define it in Medicine as 'Erythroblastosis fetalis'. It is when the RBCs (red blood cells) of the mother and surrounding immune defense do not recognize the allogenic fetus (though similar to the mother, but only half the genetic consistency).
This is a very common embryological abnormality, especially for countries that do not have the resources to provide Antigen D's for the said mother who is RH-negative.
The age of the fetus (being 3-4 months old) is signatory to this.
This case is similar and straight off from Embryological development.
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