Posted on 03/05/2005 7:37:31 PM PST by baseball_fan
Full-frontal images of a vagina are available on cable Sunday night, but they come at a price. You have to watch a bloody, hairy baby burst through that vagina, and before that you have to watch the little creature in utero, growing in all its Operation Rescue propaganda detail, in the National Geographic Channel's latest unveiling of the hideous miracle of life.
"In the Womb" is actually a cool, beautiful movie, a celebration of computer imaging and the 4-D ultrasound. It exhibits a minimum of politics, probably because it appears to have been made in England, where the acknowledgement that humans in the womb are complex, dreaming, pain-experiencing, memory-having, walk-practicing, music-enjoying entities does not instantly put you in the same camp as doctor assassins and purveyors of "The Silent Scream."
Instead of politics, what "In the Womb" delivers is the majesty of science. The filmmakers follow an unnamed woman through her pregnancy, down to the smallest observable detail; where this one pregnancy - the one that results in a live birth at the end of the film - fails to tell the whole story, images of other embryos and fetuses, some computer-generated, are brought in.
The results include a stirring set of images, and a number of revelations. The first is that the path of sperm from testes to egg, which has until recently been a mystery, may be determined by smell: sperm may be able to scent out the egg. The second is that fetuses start practicing walking while in the womb; the stepping reflex is visible as early as 11 weeks into the pregnancy.
The third revelation is that babies can recognize their mothers' voices prenatally, and even reflect an appreciation of their mothers' rhythms in their own postnatal cries....snip
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I considered that, but the reference to "Operation Rescue propaganda" doesn't sound ironic. In any case, she's describing her world, which sounds like a pretty sick place.
I had to reread it a few times. Still not sure of the point being made.
I'll be watching Sunday with my pregnant wife.
To show you how afraid the MSM is of this issue - our local NYT owned paper frequently runs a column by a local writer. It's called "My Turn" and can be on almost any issue. Last week they ran one by a local college professor who was tired of having obscene rap music blaring through his office windows, and sick of watching "This is Bob. Bob has a big new boost of conficence...." you know who I'm talking about -- during the news with his 13 y.o daughter in the room. The news ran his column, and interestingly enough, they didn't run an opposing view.
Last year, after seeing my unborn granddaughter on one of those new ultrasounds that will be featured in the NG program tonight, I wrote a column about seeing her for the first time. I wrote how she smiled when she heard our voices, and how her features are so like my daughter. This was right after the "March for Women's Lives" -- the march in which someone carried a sign saying "Barbara chose poorly", and I also discussed that, and the fact (I got this point from Rush Limbaugh --) that by making that statement, the bearer of the sign knew that the "fetus" Barbara carried became our President, so was, in fact, a person.
The paper ran my column, but went out and found someone to write an opposing column, and they ran them side by side. I don't recall them doing that before or since. I suspect they may have given this person a copy of my column before he wrote his, but they did not afford me the same opportunity.
The man who wrote the column was a Unitarian Univeralist clergyman, and his points were "theologically" based (bad theology, I might add).
I purposely did not include any scripture or theology in my column because liberals and secularists tend to roll their eyes and stop reading the minute they hear any Biblical references. I just wrote about the person my granddaughter was then, and all the potential for her life, and all the potential wasted by abortion.
Full-frontal images of a talking vagina are available on cable any time Maureen Dowd makes an appearance.
"Before it takes its [we can say he or she, but it takes more space for copy] first breath, a human baby [and this is the essence of the truth the viewer will realize, this is already a human baby, not an amorphous blob, and he or she is 'self-directing' in growth and development] has been through an incredible transformation... [NOTE: transformation, not transmogrification!] From a single cell to a complex, self-sustaining organism. With ground-breaking photography, computer graphics, and 4-D imaging, In the Womb reveals this amazing process as the first heart cells begin to beat, the nerve cells flicker to life, and the senses develop.
Are you copying it. I asked a neighbor to copy it for me and she thinks that she may be able to but is having some problems with her VCR. Is there any way that I can obtain a copy if she is not able?
On Now Bump
What time?
It's on now (8:28pm Eastern). National Geographic channel. SHow started at 8pm. THey are at 8 weeks plus presently.
Please let me know if any of you are copying it...I would love a copy to show the children.
Unfortunately, I missed it. Had a migraine and passed out for a few hours. My daughter kissed my forehead, and I got better...
I was being facetious about the kiss. My Imitrex kicked in if you want the actual truth, but I was feeling a little soft about my daughter considering the nature of the thread, so I wanted to give her credit. If you need a note from my neurologist, I'll be glad to send it to you.
If you need a note from my neurologist, I'll be glad to send it to you. >>>
Please do.
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