Chapter 18: Myth—Abortion Doesn’t Matter

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Myth—Abortion Doesn’t Matter

If you chose to recommend abortion, you recommended aborting

Beethoven’s life. If you chose against abortion, you saved Beethoven’s life. The test concludes: “Every baby won’t grow up to be a Beethoven, but doesn’t every human deserve the chance to make the most of their life?”

Ultrasound images have gotten so sophisticated that you can literally see the baby’s developing organs emerge. I recently viewed some 3D ultrasound images at BBC News 13. These ultrasound images captured babies wanting to move forward [walk] in the womb when held in an upright

position, laughing in the womb, yawning in the womb, sucking on their thumbs in the womb, etc. What these scans by Professor Stuart Campbell at London’s Create Health Clinic showed is amazing. Is not science and technology now validating what God has taught us in His Word?

1. At 8 weeks, a fetus is able to kick and straighten their legs, turn around and move their arms up and down. 2. At 10 weeks, a fetus can move their arms and legs with a range of movements that are fluid and supple.

3. At 18 weeks, a fetus can open their eyes although most doctors thought eyelids were fused until 26 weeks. 4. At 22 weeks, babies are capable of fine hand and finger movements. In a short space of time, one baby is observed

scratching, rubbing and patting his cheeks before doing the same thing to his nose. 5. At 24 weeks, when retinal development is complete, babies open and close their eyes intermittently. This helps the baby to perfect

the blinking reflex, which will protect his eyes when born. 6. From 26 weeks, babies appear to exhibit a whole range of typical baby behavior and moods, including scratching, smiling, crying, hiccoughing, and sucking.

7. Observed in the womb, a baby’s brain development is sufficient to enable them to apparently sense the other parts of their body. They can bring their fingertips together so they touch. They can feel. 8. Although grasping begins early on, it becomes better established

during the last trimester. Babies grasp hands, feet, fingers, toes and, most commonly, their umbilical cords.