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Fetuses found to have memories
The Washington Times ^ | 7/16/09 | Jennifer Harper

Posted on 07/16/2009 8:01:24 AM PDT by lakeprincess

They weigh less than 3 pounds, usually, and are perhaps 15 inches long. But they can remember.

The unborn have memories, according to medical researchers who used sound and vibration stimulation, combined with sonography, to reveal that the human fetus displays short-term memory from at least 30 weeks gestation - or about two months before they are born.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: abortion; fetus; fetuses; medical; memories; memory; personhood; prenataldevelopment; press; prolife; unborn

1 posted on 07/16/2009 8:01:24 AM PDT by lakeprincess
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To: lakeprincess

But that still doesn’t make them “viable” ~ any liberal baby killer.

I’m so sick of that argument. They bitch and moan about lives being lost in the wars but almost gleefully put down the unborn because “they can’t survive outside the womb”

Even idiot liberals, who by all accounts are brain-dead, seem to have survived outside the womb.


2 posted on 07/16/2009 8:04:10 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: lakeprincess

Stop trying to control women’s bodies!!!/s


3 posted on 07/16/2009 8:04:57 AM PDT by villagerjoel (1. Implement socialist policies 2. ??? 3. Heaven on earth)
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To: lakeprincess

They probably have better short term memory than I do at this point in my life.


4 posted on 07/16/2009 8:10:31 AM PDT by freespirited (Money doesn't buy happiness but will pay a research staff to study the problem.)
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To: lakeprincess

My wife and I spent every day with one of our babies, who started life at 1 pound 3.5 ounces, for his short life of five months. Both of us would believe this whole heartedly.


5 posted on 07/16/2009 8:10:55 AM PDT by Ghengis
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To: Ghengis

This is an interesting angle... I had never thought of using brain imaging or some other similar method to prove that an unborn baby is “aware”.

Brain scans showing unborn babies reacting to stimulus would unnerve the liberal butchers, who can’t even stand to see a fish suffer.


6 posted on 07/16/2009 8:21:20 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I will never understand how the medical definition of death is the lack of brain waves and a beating heart but the definition of life is not the presence of brain waves and a heating heart.


7 posted on 07/16/2009 8:25:57 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: lakeprincess

Obama might have a thought about this, but it’s above his pay grade.


8 posted on 07/16/2009 8:28:36 AM PDT by cookcounty (http://www.stumpedagain.wordpress.com)
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To: Slapshot68
I’m so sick of that argument. They bitch and moan about lives being lost in the wars but almost gleefully put down the unborn because “they can’t survive outside the womb”

If someone is a liberal who can't survive without receiving some sort of government assistance, does that make that person "non-viable"?

9 posted on 07/16/2009 8:36:54 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
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To: lakeprincess; wagglebee

Prayer for the Helpless Unborn

fetus at 11 weeks

Heavenly Father, in Your love for us, protect against the wickedness of the devil,

those helpless little ones to whom You have given the gift of life.

Touch with pity the hearts of those women pregnant in our world today

 who are not thinking of motherhood.

Help them to see that the child they carry is made in Your image

 - as well as theirs - made for eternal life.

Dispel their fear and selfishness and give them true womanly hearts

to love their babies and give them birth

and all the needed care that a mother can give.

We ask this through Jesus Christ, Your Son, Our Lord,

Who lives and reigns with You and Holy Spirit,

One God, forever and ever. Amen.


10 posted on 07/16/2009 8:47:41 AM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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To: Slapshot68

A liberal is a being that cannot survive outside the womb of government....................


11 posted on 07/16/2009 8:49:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Inquiring minds want to know, but American Idol minds could care less...)
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To: lakeprincess
Pinged from Terri Dailies


12 posted on 07/16/2009 1:08:15 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: lakeprincess

Every aborted baby(fetus) is in Heaven.


13 posted on 07/16/2009 2:00:40 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: Red Badger

THAT’S a GOOD one!!!!


14 posted on 07/16/2009 2:14:23 PM PDT by Inclines to the Right (http://www.fightfoca.com/ www.jillstanek.com)
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To: Ghengis

My sincere regards to you and your family...


15 posted on 07/16/2009 6:33:31 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: lakeprincess
"Fetuses found to have memories"

Better known in the old days as unborn babies.

Hey honey how's that fetus in your belly doing?

16 posted on 07/16/2009 6:35:29 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
Thank you. We have been blessed with two great children after two losses.

After some time, I came to understand that those 5 months were quite a gift. I learned quite a lot in that short time with our son.

17 posted on 07/16/2009 7:37:49 PM PDT by Ghengis
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To: Ghengis

At the present time, we watch our 16 month old grandaughter three days a week, and she’s running all over the place and trying to talk.

Our other daughter is expecting on Sept. 16, and we’ll be watching him too.

This baby girl is precious. My best to you.


18 posted on 07/17/2009 5:25:11 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: lakeprincess; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; ...
Foetuses [Fetuses] 'may be conscious long before abortion limit'
19 posted on 07/21/2009 7:43:34 PM PDT by Coleus (Abortion, Euthanasia & FOCA - - don't Obama and the Democrats just kill ya!)
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To: Coleus

The liberals believe that all humans are as disposable as those outlined in 1984 or in any of the third world dictatorships that they suck up to.

As long as it is not them, hey, life is good. And at someone’s else’s expense. What they do not realize until the dictators that they lick the boots of, march them off to the firing squad or the Soylent booth, is that when some humans are considered disposable, then all humans are considered disposable.


20 posted on 07/21/2009 8:16:17 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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