Anti-abortion activist concedes pictures of human foetuses may have been sugar glider joeys

The anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe has conceded she may have used a “scam” email featuring a picture of sugar glider joeys, referring to them as human foetuses, to promote her views – but it “was an insignificant detail”. In a video posted to Facebook on Wednesday afternoon, Howe said it appeared she had been “scammed” when someone emailed her claiming to give details about their medical abortion, including an image that Howe referred to as twin girls she called Ruth and Emma. Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email Howe had previously posted a video on social media on 21 May about the email and the picture, which she also added to a poster promoting a rally in Sydney next week. She said in the video doctors had “abandoned” the woman after giving her a medical abortion, that she was left “alone, in her bathroom, giving birth to her twin babies on to the bathroom floor”. Guardian Australia revealed on Wednesday that the image was very unlikely to be of human foetuses, and was almost certainly a screenshot of sugar glider joeys taken from a TikTok video. Howe said in an Instagram post on Wednesday critics “hone [sic] in on these little like insignificant details when it doesn’t actually matter because we know that little things like Ruth and Emma are being killed every day in this country”. “Even if … the picture of Ruth and Emma is sugar gliders, like, does it really even fucking matter?” she said in the post. …