I'm a first time parent with a 2yr old. For me, hearing and seeing that pulsing blip. "That's the heart." I cried with joy! It solidified my position like a rock to advocate life.
FYI..this Sunday night on National Geographic, there's a program showing the new 4D ultrasound pics of the fetus...well worth watching..
Same here...what struck me was the ferocity of that little heartbeat.
What also stuck me was how my second boy jammed his hand in his mouth 5 seconds after passing out of Mommy. He's 5 months old now and still does it...but he's probably been sucking on that fist for 10 months now....5 months inside Mommy and 5 months outside Mommy.
As we said in the Army, "Same sh*t, different day."
If you think about what abortion is: itis the legalized murder for anyone under 9 months old...whether a baby is inside Mommy or outside Mommy has no bearing on anything.
Now with the all the Preemies, even this 9 month marker is irrelevent. Leaving Mommy at 6,7,8,9 months...what's the difference?
I heard a thing on the radio the other day about a local pregnancy counseling place that pushes life instead of abortion. Often times when a young soon-to-be-mommy comes in thinking about going somewhere for an abortion they will give them free ultrasounds. Out of 94 ultrasounds given last year, 86 of those girls decided not to abort the babies. Amazing!
As a medic in the Army for my first tour I always had things at home I had from work. One of these was a stethoscope. One day a female soldier friend of mine came to my barracks room door in tears, telling me that she was pregnant and didn't want to keep the baby. I took that stethoscope and found the childs heartbeat. I then put the earpieces in her ears. She carried the baby to term then adopted him out to her sister and brother-in-law who were sterile, unable to have kids. She also became a staunch pro-lifer.