The pediatrician in the video, Dr. Ismail, said that Rayan effectively died of a panic attack: that his little heart and body couldn't control his reaction to the fear of being chased by the soldiers, and so he just dropped after arriving at home.
some spreads from my senior thesis titled Neophobia, a zine that deconstructs the figures of filipino horror and asks: why have we created them in the first place?
Pro-lifers don't like complexity. At 17 weeks my placenta detached and he was much too small. I thought I felt my baby's frantic attempts to breathe. My OBGYN advised me to terminate the pregnancy, there wasn't much time. But I couldn't.