{"id":897622,"date":"2021-10-19T11:13:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=897622"},"modified":"2021-10-19T11:13:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:13:49","slug":"fact-check-no-this-sculpture-was-not-made-by-a-father-whose-wife-and-unborn-child-were-killed-by-a-drunk-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-this-sculpture-was-not-made-by-a-father-whose-wife-and-unborn-child-were-killed-by-a-drunk-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, This Sculpture Was Not Made By A Father Whose Wife And Unborn Child Were Killed By A Drunk Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-no-this-sculpture-was-not-made-by-a-father-whose-wife-and-unborn-child-were-killed-by-a-drunk-driver%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=897622&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=2869672823342737&amp;set=gm.845690539426918&amp;type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a sculpture of a fetus that was created by a man whose pregnant wife and unborn child were killed by a drunk driver.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7303114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7303114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The artist responsible for the work refuted this rumor.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=2869672823342737&amp;set=gm.845690539426918&amp;type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a> shows what appears to be a sculpture of a fetus carved into the side of a roadside hill. \u201cRoadside sculpture carved by a father who lost his wife and unborn child to a drunk driver,\u201d reads text included in the image. \u201cThis is incredible.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/10\/07\/fact-check-image-show-alysia-montano-winning-race-pregnant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show Alysia Montano Winning The 800 Meter Race While 5 Months Pregnant?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The text, however, misstates the circumstances of the sculpture\u2019s construction. The sculpture was the subject of a 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210121175056\/https:\/\/www.ok.co.uk\/lifestyle\/you-need-see-stunning-sculpture-14724925\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OK! Magazine<\/a> article that explained the work is called \u201cPregnant Mountain\u201d and was created by artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dubianmonsalve\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dubian Monsalve<\/a> in 2012 near the town of Santo Domingo in Colombia. The article mentions nothing about him losing his wife and unborn child to a drunk driving accident.<\/p>\n<p>Monsalve confirmed in an email to Check Your Fact that he created the work in 2012 and said the story of it being inspired by a tragic drunk driving accident is false. Rather, he explained the work honors the area\u2019s farmers, who suffered violence in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work is in memory of those who were stripped of their land and their lives, it is also a tribute to the resilience of the people who returned to the field, who returned to sow with some hope, and returned to inhabit their houses and their land,\u201d reads a translated version of Monsalve\u2019s email. \u201cIt is a tribute to being born again!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also told a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aciprensa.com\/noticias\/foto-viral-montana-embarazada-rinde-homenaje-a-la-vida-desde-la-concepcion-80373\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catholic news outlet<\/a> in 2015 that the sculpture represents his belief that \u201clife has value from conception to its end,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/craigsilverman\/nobody-puts-baby-in-a-mountain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BuzzFeed News<\/a>.&nbsp;Similar works can be found in some of Monsalve\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bz_TAmAHmir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CIAHZakjg6-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a sculpture of a fetus that was created by a man whose pregnant wife and unborn child were killed by a drunk driver.Facebook\/ScreenshotVerdict: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}