Humanity of the unborn child

Technological advancements have made it possible to view ultrasound images of unborn children kicking, jumping, and waving their arms and legs at just seven-to-eight weeks after conception! Such evidence has opened the eyes of many academics, doctors, and most importantly, expectant mothers on the verge choosing to abort their unborn children. 

A foetus does not just become human once it has reached a certain developmental stage in the womb. At conception, a human life is created. It's amazing how many liberals and pro-abortionists have little trouble classifying animals, plants and fungi as living things, and yet, when it comes to babies at the earliest stages of life, respect for human life and dignity becomes conditional.

These same people, while expressing concern for animals' pain, deny the pain experienced by unborn children. To show just a bit of compassion to the most vulnerable and innocent members of society would affirm the humanity of these unborn children.

 

     

A living, breathing human being

The photograph shows an unborn child aged 6-7 weeks, from an ectopic pregnancy. This award winning photograph was taken by Robert Wolfe, Medical Photographer at the University of Minnesota.

"Eleven years ago while administering an anesthetic for ruptured ectopic pregnany (at two months gestation) I was handed what I believe was the smallest living human being ever seen.

The embryo sac was intact and transparent. Within the sac was a tiny (approx. 1cm) human male swimming extremely vigorously in the amniotic fluid, while attached to the wall by the umbilical cord.

This tiny human was perfectly developed, with long tapering fingers, feet and toes. It was almost transparent, as regards the skin, and the delicate arteries and veins were prominent to the ends of the fingers.

The baby was extremely alive and swam about the sac approximately one time per second, with a natural swimmer's stroke. This tiny human did not look at all like the photos and drawings and models of 'embryos' which I have seen, nor did it look like the few embryos I have been able to observe since then, obviously because this one was alive.

The swimming human was observed by the Head Surgery nurse and our children, who were called out of school to observe such a unique phenomenon. When the sac was opened, the tiny human immediately lost its life and took on the appearance of what is accepted as the appearance of an embryo at this age.

Six months later, at a lecture in embryology at Harvard University, I had occasion to ask the approximately 150 physicians present whether any had witnessed such a phenomenon. All were amazed and none had seen nor heard of such an event..."

Dr. Paul E. Rockwell, Director of Anesthesiology, Leonard Hospial, Troy, New York: Letter to the editor, Albany, Times-Union, 10th March 1970