I was pro-abort a long time ago, and it was ultrasound that changed my mind.
The baby starts to move before 12 weeeks.
I saw one of mine leap her full length at 10 weeks (8 weeks from conception) and that was on a 2D ultrasound.
It’s obvious the baby is alive long before we know a thing. It comes into the world kicking and screaming. Exactly where do you think that came from.
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For an article that represents itself to be about science, it sure does include a lot of emotional psychobabble.
Thank you for posting this. Profoundly interesting and useful in the current context.
And it's a damned shame, because electron microscopy had already been developed, and Lennart Nilsson, a Swedish photographer, had already published A Child Is Born in 1965, a stunning coffee-table book of full color photos of fetuses inside the womb. Here are just a few: