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Originally posted by Moses
Exactly. That is an anencephalic baby. Not as uncommon as we would like. Can be caused by 1st trimester exposure to sustained high temperatures. Most have no known cause. Basically, the entire hind-brain never forms.
It is a reproductive tragedy and completely incompatible with sustained life. By photographing this poor couples child they have turned a private tragedy into public humiliation. Morons.
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The typical rate is as high as 1 in 1,000 - they only live days. In Iraq it's much much higher, it's also much higher in the families of our Gulf War vets.
D.U. is not the only thing which causes increased birth defects. War in general is a very messy thing, the results of which lasts many years.
http://www.tacomapjh.org/ondepleteduranium.htm
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UN Subcommision on Human Rights in 1996 declared depleted uranium to be a weapon of mass destruction. While many believe that the increased incidence of birth defects, cancer, and infertility, particularly in southern Iraq, is related to depleted uranium, others are equally certain of the importance of other causes, such as toxic fallout from oil fires and bombing of weapons and chemical factories. Increased consanguinity, though it has probably occurred seems unlikely to be of great importance because of the parallel increases in birth defects and cancers, and because the particular kinds of birth defects major central nervous system anomalies, facial defects, and phocomelia (defects of the extremities as in the thalidomide syndrome) appear to many to be related to internal radiation exposure.
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Lots of information out there:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=depleted+uranium+Anencephaly&btnG=Google+Search