Studying dead fetuses is how we learned about a lot of fetal development and birth defects. Science is not always pretty but it is necessary. Granted nowadays, there is not much new science left to be learned from those particular specimens, so they are preserved for instructional purposes for new students.
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Studying dead fetuses is how we learned about a lot of fetal development and birth defects. Science is not always pretty but it is necessary. Granted nowadays, there is not much new science left to be learned from those particular specimens, so they are preserved for instructional purposes for new students.