My thought has always been, and somewhat jokingly, that babies can't talk when they are born becuase they would spill the beans about heaven. These are different for the ultra sound 3-Ds we have become acustom to. A beautiful picture is in the article. Just makes me wonder that point even more...
Pani Rose
Unborn baby pictures fuel abortion debate
By Sarah Womack, Social Affairs Correspondent
(Filed: 19/03/2005)
"I just wanted to educate couples about the development of a baby," he told The Daily Telegraph. The images were compiled for his book "Watch Me Grow!" for would-be parents. "It never entered my head that these pictures would have this effect, engendering a national debate on abortion, but seeing an 11-week-old foetus doing quite sophisticated things opened my own eyes to the fact that we did not know how rapidly the foetus developed," he said.
His pictures showed that at 12 weeks, unborn babies looked like they were "enjoying jumping off the womb like a trampoline". At 14 and 15 weeks they sucked their thumbs and at 18 weeks they opened their eyes. Experts had said babies did not open their eyes until 26 weeks. One image he took captured a 14-week-old standing up, stretching and then sitting down again inside his mother's womb. Prof Campbell, former head of obstetrics at King's College Hospital who now works at a private practice, Create Health, in Harley Street, said the pictures had altered his views of abortion....
The article is here
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/19/nabort119.xml
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