By Dave Andrusko
All this week National Right to Life President and Pro-Life Perspective Host Carol Tobias is conducting an on-line seminar on prenatal development. As she explains this is hard science, not subjective opinion. The developmental markers and milestones she is discussing this week are precisely the kind of truth that makes pro-abortionists cringe.
Thursday’s PLP episode begins with this succinct overview of the baby’s first eight weeks.
“From the moment of conception, a unique human person is formed. This new human being begins to develop in ways that are unique to all human beings, exhibiting all the characteristics of human life. The baby is called a zygote at fertilization. After four days, she is called a blastocyst, and, after 6 days, begins to implant in the uterine wall. From 2 to 8 weeks, she is called an embryo.”
What’s so fascinating is that only 1” long at eight weeks, our baby looks like a baby with all body parts present and whose face is clearly recognizable as a human child.
Jumping ahead to 12 week, the baby exercises by jumping and rolling around in the amniotic fluid. At four months, Mrs. Tobias tells her audience, “The brain is now fully developed and an EKG can be obtained of the heart beat.” In short order the baby will have reached the stage where only growth will occur from then until birth.
Mrs. Tobias concludes Thursday’s episode with an important collateral truth.
“Even our pro-abortion opposition is forced to concede the reality of unborn development. And we have seen time and again that when a mother who is contemplating abortion is given all of the facts about the development of her unborn child – including the opportunity to see her child via ultrasound – she will be more likely to choose life for her child.”
On the webpage of Pro-Life Perspective you will find three helpful resources that provide additional written and visual information about the marvelously. They include
· National Right to Life’s award-winning video, “A Baby’s First Months…Infinite Possibilities,” found at http://stoptheabortionagenda.com/abfmip/. This is absolutely must viewing.
· “Diary of an Unborn Child”–fetal development from conception to birth– found at www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/fetaldevelopment.html; and
· “The basics: a compilation of recent and noteworthy information on the abortion issue,” found at www.nrlc.org/Factsheets/FS09_TheBasics.pdf
