Regardless of the stage of pregnancy, whether it's surgical or suction,
It's still an ugly, ugly thing:
Posted on 08/25/2009 4:02:20 PM PDT by wagglebee
While portraying images of the sperm and egg coming together, the narrator explains, "Once within the egg wall, the sperm's nucleus is drawn toward the egg's. The two cells gradually and gracefully become one.
"This is the moment of conception," he declares, "when an individual's unique set of DNA is created, a human's signature that never existed before, and will never be repeated."
The narrator goes on to explain how all of the characteristics of the human body are laid out in the first weeks of life. "Over the course of the first trimester, or first three months, this single egg will begin to transform itself into a fully-formed baby," he says. "But all the features of the human body, limbs, nerves, organs, muscles will be mapped out in the fragile first weeks."
Through vivid computer-generated images, we are shown how at 4 weeks the black dots that will become the baby's eyes have already formed, as well as the "emerging buds" along her body that will grow into her limbs. By six weeks, the eyes, though still not functional, have become "glassy domes with no eyelids," and by nine weeks the buds have grown into full-fledged limbs.
We see the beginning movements of the fetus at nine weeks, and through 4-D ultrasound imaging, we witness the initial stepping reflex of the little 11-week child. The ultrasound shows the child bouncing around in her mother's womb, "using the walls of the uterus like a trampoline," as the narrator says.
The documentary takes the viewer into the operating room, where a fetoscope is used to perform surgery on a 26-week-old fetus who has developed a hole in his diaphragm. Without the surgery, his intestines will have grown into his lungs by the time he is born, not allowing him to breathe. The doctor puts the fetoscope through an incision in the mother, into the baby's mouth, and down the back of his throat to insert a tiny little inflatable balloon that will allow the lungs to grow properly (see end of video #7) to beginning of video #8).
The documentary's message is self-evident: the child in utero is fully human and her development in her mother's womb is merely one important phase in her continuous growth. Concluding the video with the birth of a newborn baby girl, the narrator explains, "She's gone from egg to embryo to fetus to trillions of cells of newborn baby. Her birth marks the beginning of her journey in the world, but she has already travelled an incredible path during her 9-month odyssey in the womb.
"Protected by her mother, and following her own unique genetic blueprint, she has grown a face, eyes, arms, and legs," he says. "She has a brain and nervous system to control her body. Stomach and intestines to digest food and a heart to pump blood. She has learned to breathe, to hear, to feed, to remember, and to tell her parents when she's hungry, tired, happy, or in pain. All before being born. And now, she is ready to face the world."
See the following videos on YouTube:
(Warning: These do contain some suggestive material, including nudity.)
"In the Womb"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtIqi6bkmIU
"In the Womb: Multiples"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOD0loCtrNU&feature=related
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
National Geographic Channel Explores the Hidden World 'In The Womb' March 6
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/mar/05030301.html
Just Look: Cardinal Egan Compares Abortion Crimes to those of Hitler, Stalin
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/oct/08102701.html
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good news! using technology for good instead of evil. kudos to NG
Awesome videos; thanks, I can’t wait to pass this thread link to my email address list!
Here’s Obama’s take on this:
Obama - I don’t want my daughters “punished with a baby”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbZJYWjkAPo
It should be mandatory viewing for those entering the abortion mills.
Thanks for posting!
BTTT!
Regardless of the stage of pregnancy, whether it's surgical or suction,
It's still an ugly, ugly thing:
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
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So we can’t call Obama a “compassionate communist”
We can call Obama a killer though
Okay I’ve definitely heard the term before, but could someone explain “4-D” to me?
Interesting use of the word Mother under diagram A
“4-D” is 3-D over time.
BKMK4LTR
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