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The Amazing Feats of Fetal Development
LifeNews.com ^ | July 15, 2008 | Maria Vitale

Posted on 07/16/2008 11:05:55 AM PDT by victim soul

Dancing With the Baby Stars - The Amazing Feats of Fetal Development

You may not think of yourself as the next Kristi Yamaguchi, but long before you could walk, you could dance. Not on the floor, mind you, but in the womb.

If you want proof of an unborn baby's dancing ability, check out

http://www.yourdevelopingbaby.com/sampleChapters/7.htm.

There, under the headline "Baby aerobics," you'll see a baby 15 weeks after conception, doing a unique form of hip hop.

The incredible video comes courtesy of two Harvard radiology professors, Peter Doubilet and Carol Benson, a married couple who have written an eye-catching book called "Your Developing Baby." The work includes some 250 images which underscore the humanity of the unborn child.

I think it can be argued that where there is dancing, there is life. Therefore, an abortion disrupts the dance of life, destroying the dancer's body and rendering him or her lifeless.

When the debate over abortion is reduced to a woman's quest for control of her body, the invisible dancer is forgotten. If abortion is considered tantamount to a tooth extraction, the "pro-choice" argument can seem convincing to the uninformed.

But the rhetoric does not jive with the reality, especially when you can see clips of a child jive-dancing in her mother's belly. The rule of self-determination should apply to the human who makes her home in the womb, as well as the human who supplies the womb. If a pregnant woman has a right to bodily integrity, which she does, so does the little woman inside of her.

An ultrasound image can leave us speechless, so breathtaking is it in its intensity. How, then, can we possibly justify leaving the subject of the image gasping for life?

Paging through "Your Developing Baby" can yield an "Aha!" moment, just as when Juno comes to the understanding that the child within her has fingernails. When the "it" becomes a "he" or a "she," the pro-life argument wins.

There may be no mirror ball trophies for the best unborn dancer of them all, but these little athletes deserve celebrity status. They should be treated with the utmost kindness and respect, as should their mothers. And no doctor should be permitted to bring their dances to an end.

LifeNews.com Note: Maria Vitale is a LifeNews.com Opinion Columnist and the Education Director of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation. Vitale has written and reported for various broadcast and print media outlets, including National Public Radio, CBS Radio, and AP Radio.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Religion; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: fetaldevelopment; huamnbeings; life; love

1 posted on 07/16/2008 11:05:56 AM PDT by victim soul
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To: victim soul

I love this site! Thank you for posting.


2 posted on 07/16/2008 11:08:18 AM PDT by autumnraine
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To: victim soul

http://www.yourdevelopingbaby.com/sampleChapters/7.htm. “Image/Page not available”


3 posted on 07/16/2008 11:11:58 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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Not available after the woman/girl makes that ‘’visit to the ‘clinic’. Tissues now for sale to bidders.


4 posted on 07/16/2008 11:16:43 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN

Just checked.

http://www.yourdevelopingbaby.com/sampleChapters/7.htm


5 posted on 07/16/2008 11:17:25 AM PDT by victim soul
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To: victim soul

Beautiful!


6 posted on 07/16/2008 11:34:05 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS
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To: victim soul

I apologize ... I was trying to make a point regarding the heinous snuffing out of the lives of these little ones.


7 posted on 07/16/2008 12:10:02 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: victim soul

My baby is the same age as the aerobics baby! I hope the poor thing isn’t quite so squashed, though....


8 posted on 07/16/2008 12:17:01 PM PDT by Eepsy (12-30-2008 +1)
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To: Eepsy

Space is limited, but a second and third child later will not have the same cramping of quarters. The ‘room’ will still get small, fast.


9 posted on 07/16/2008 12:58:51 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN

Oh. Well as this is number 4, then, I suppose he has the fetal equivalent of an Olympic sized swimming pool :)


10 posted on 07/16/2008 1:58:45 PM PDT by Eepsy (12-30-2008 +1)
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To: Eepsy
I was a third ... but I don't remember if my room was bigger or not. ;^( I still love my Mommy though ... she's in her nineties now.
11 posted on 07/16/2008 2:34:06 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: victim soul

BTW, thank you so much for posting this update to the 4D imagery we’ve used here in the past.


12 posted on 07/16/2008 2:35:00 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Understated

Interesting


13 posted on 07/16/2008 3:24:39 PM PDT by DeLaine (Where there is great love there are always miracles. (Willa Cather))
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To: cpforlife.org

Ping, brother! Beautiful little ones. Want to ping your pro-life list to this joy?


14 posted on 07/16/2008 4:08:29 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Coleus; nickcarraway; narses; Mr. Silverback; Canticle_of_Deborah; TenthAmendmentChampion; ...
Pro-Life PING

Please FreepMail me if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.

15 posted on 07/16/2008 5:33:26 PM PDT by cpforlife.org (A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available FREE at KnightsForLife.org)
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To: MHGinTN

Thanks very much Marvin!


16 posted on 07/16/2008 5:34:35 PM PDT by cpforlife.org (A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available FREE at KnightsForLife.org)
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To: victim soul

Here’s why the country is becoming increasingly more pro-life, measured even by mainstream media and pro-choicers’ polls (like that of the Center for Gender Equality): people can see the truth for themselves. No longer is the “it’s only a blob of tissue” lie unrebuttable. The Internet has, to the horror of the pro-choice movement, made the truth readily available.


17 posted on 07/17/2008 5:40:21 AM PDT by Caleb1411 ("These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own." G. K. C)
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To: MHGinTN

You need to delete the punctuation (.) at the end of htm


18 posted on 07/17/2008 6:01:10 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (The Holy Spirit gave th Apostles and gives u th power boldly 2 proclaim that Christ is risen! - Bxvi)
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To: Eepsy

Eepsy! Give your “inner dancer” a pat on the head ...if you can find it-— but a pat on the butt works just as good..


19 posted on 07/17/2008 6:03:20 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (The Holy Spirit gave th Apostles and gives u th power boldly 2 proclaim that Christ is risen! - Bxvi)
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To: victim soul

Beautiful.


20 posted on 07/17/2008 6:13:59 AM PDT by Skooz (Any nation that would elect Hillary Clinton as its president has forfeited its right to exist.)
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