by LauraLoo
Amazing 4D footage and excerpts from National Geographic’s documentary, In the Womb…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GofikTw6gGk[/youtube]
Psalm 139:14, New International Version:
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
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Why does having a boy increase your risk of having a miscarriage for the next child? They kind of glossed over that, and it was shocking to me.
Amber, I looked that up, too, and found this article which states:
“The reaction takes place because baby boys secrete proteins linked to the male Y chromosome, which may cause the mother’s immune system to form antibodies to try to fight off the ‘invader’.
The first pregnancy survives because the foetus is strong enough to resist by the time the immune response begins.
But experts say women’s bodies may ‘remember’ what has happened and form similar antibodies early on in their next pregnancy, causing them to miscarry.”
I have a sister-in-law that had three miscarriages. She’d already had two boys born, and the doctors were thinking the miscarriages possibly occurred because those times the fetuses were female. ??
She did end up having a healthy girl in the end.
If women channel-surfed half as much as men do, there would be hell to pay for the pro-choice crowd. The information explosion is all on our side. “Clump of cells?” Liars!
Hans: You beat me to it. I was thinking the exact same thing.
This video should be required viewing in schools across the country.
Hans: If women channel-surfed half as much as men do, there would be hell to pay for the pro-choice crowd. The information explosion is all on our side. “Clump of cells?” Liars!
Oh for Pete’s sake. I see this multiple times a day, from pro-lifers, not pro-choicers. To a point in gestation, it really is just a clump of cells, but granted that once it’s an embryo this is no longer true.
That said, it’s an amazing, awesome process, and the Youtube video reminds me of Lennart Nillson’s pictures from the 1960s.
It was Nillson’s pictures that first sparked this line of thinking for me. Once it became a “womb with a view” there was no going back. It takes a heap of denial to not see the truth.
By the time anyone knows a pregnancy is in progress it’s way beyond the “clump of cells” lie. If you’ve heard it said more often by pro-lifers it’s because we grabbed that lie out of their hands and whacked them with it.
By the time anyone knows a pregnancy is in progress it’s way beyond the “clump of cells” lie.
That’s not true, Hans, as stated. Sometimes, women know and sometimes there are signs early on. That said, hey – if there is somebody who is actually saying, “it’s nothing more than a clump of cells” when the embryo does have a recognizable form, then I’d disagree with them as strongly as you would.
Since our lives begin at conception it hardly matters whether a developing person has this many cells or that many cells. Abortion advocates wish the blastocyst would last through most of the pregnancy so that images like these wouldn’t make the embryo look so human. In the abortion advocates mind, the small human is easier to kill if no one can recognize his or her humanity. That is why they kick so hard against ultrasound laws. It goads their conscience.
I wish they hadn’t used the tired and incorrect “fertilized egg.” An egg is fertilized, but immediately a new life is formed. I didn’t hang out in the fallopian tubes being a fertlized egg for a few weeks, duh! As soon as my DNA was my own, I was no longer someone else’s egg.
Ninek: Since our lives begin at conception it hardly matters whether a developing person has this many cells or that many cells.
It’s the fact that personhood isn’t attributed that has you upset in the first place. If we’re talking about when is it truly a “clump of cells,” then the number of cells indeed does matter.
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Abortion advocates wish the blastocyst would last through most of the pregnancy so that images like these wouldn’t make the embryo look so human.
Well, perhaps so, if somebody is actually advocating “abortion,” per se, regardless of whether the woman wants to be pregnant or not. But that’s not being pro-choice, of course.
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I didn’t hang out in the fallopian tubes being a fertlized egg for a few weeks, duh!
Might have for one week, though, and still a “clump of cells” for real and true. ;)
Time enough for some graffiti in there?
Only abortion advocates wish to quibble about how many cells you have.
Abortionists are uncomfortable with the development of the nervous system, the circulatory system, the musculo-skeletal growth – why? As I stated, the humanity of the child is hard to deny. The way you and your abortion-loving allies all rally around the “clump of cells” image of the human child only proves my point: humanity makes you all uncomfortable.
Whether you’re one hour post-conception, one month, one year or one decade: all of equal value. It doesn’t matter how many cells I have or how far down a fallopian tube I travel: I am unique and alive. To destroy me is murder.
Ninek: Only abortion advocates wish to quibble about how many cells you have.
Oh please – we were talking about when the unborn are truly “clumps of cells” or not. Has nothing to do with being pro-life or pro-choice.
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Abortionists are uncomfortable with the development of the nervous system, the circulatory system, the musculo-skeletal growth – why?
I’d say there’s no proof of that at all. They’ve been to medical school, after all. If you mean “pro-choicers,” then I’m certainly not – the physical reality of the unborn is what it is, and if somebody is factually incorrect about it, I’ll argue with them as strongly as anybogy.
The abortionists are uncomfortable with the patient knowing this information. Medical school taught them how a pig fetus had some similarities to a human fetus. It apparently didn’t teach them one was more valuable than the other.
They’ve sure as heck thrown the Hippocratic Oath out the window. They’re like a lawyer trying to free a murderer, and not giving a whit to victims past or future.
Hans, if the doctors are truly that way, then I don’t agree with it.
Abortionists are doctors in the Dr. Mengele sense. No Jonas Salks among them.
Heh – I meant the docs being uncomfortable with the patients knowing information.
Check out http://www.fertiltycare.org (the Creighton Model Fertility Care System) to learn about your menstrual cycle. Miscarriages and premature births can be greatly reduced by knowing this important key in your fertility!
In a related story, National Geographic has been reported to AttackWatch.com.