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

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Anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe has admitted that images she used to promote her views may have been of sugar glider joeys rather than human foetuses. Howe stated that she believes she was scammed when she received an email containing the pictures, which she had referred to as twin girls. She concluded that the potential misidentification was an "insignificant detail."

Joanna Howe posts on social media that if purported images of human foetuses are in fact sugar gliders, ‘it doesn’t actually matter’

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.

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