Diary of an Unborn Baby

  • Day 1 – Fertilization: all human chromosomes are present.
  • Day 6 – Embryo begins implanting in the uterus.
  • Day 17- Has developed its own blood cells; the placenta is part of the new life and not of the mother.
  • Day 18   Baby has a heartbeat.
  • Day 19 - Eyes start to develop.
  • Day 20 - Foundation of nervous system lay down.
  • Day 22 – Heart begins to beat with baby’s own blood, often a different type than the mother’s.
  • Week 5 – Eyes, legs, hands begin to develop.
  • Week 6 – Brain waves detectable; mouth, lips present; fingernails forming. At 43 days, electrical brain wave patterns can be recorded on the Electroencephalogram (EEG). Evidence of "thinking" taking place in the brain. The new life may be thought of as a thinking person.
  • Week 7 – Eyelids, toes form; nose distinct, baby kicking and swimming. At 49 days, the baby has the appearance of a miniature doll with complete fingers, toes and ears.
  • Week 8 – Every organ in place; bones begin to replace cartilage, fingerprints begin to form; NAME CHANGED FROM EMBRYO TO FOETUS. The mother will usually not feel the child's movements until four months after conception. By the 8th week the baby is essentially complete. All future development is simply that of refinement and increase in size until maturity at approximately age 23 years.
  • Weeks 9 & 10 - Teeth begin to form, fingernails develop; baby can turn head, frown, can feel pain. Face is recognizably human.
  • Week 11 – Baby can grasp objects placed in hand; all organ systems functioning; the baby has fingerprints, a skeletal structure, nerves, and circulation.
  • Week 12 – The baby has all of the part necessary to experience pain, including the nerves, spinal cord and thalamus; the baby is nearing the end of the first trimester.
  • Week 16 – Genital organs clearly differentiated, grasps with hands, swims, kicks and turns somersaults (still not felt by mother)
  • Week 17 - Baby can have dream (REM) sleep (rapid eye movements) which are characteristic of active dream states.
  • Week 20 – The earliest stage at which partial birth abortions are performed. At 20 weeks, hair appears on head; weight - one pound; height - 12 inches.

 
Recent technology allowed a tiny microphone to be placed by the foetus’s head and "We heard almost everything, from people talking 12 feet away, to a door opening in the room, to a cart going down the hall with the door closed. The clarity was incredible. It was easy to tell who was talking." The results showed the foetus hears everything we do, only 10 decibels less. Their earliest response to sound was at 26 weeks.
 
"Probably nothing has been as damaging to our cause as the advances in technology which have allowed pictures of the developing foetus, because people now talk about the foetus in much different terms than they did 15 years ago. They talk about it as a human being, which is not something that I have an easy answer on how to cure.”
-- Harrison Hickman, pollster for the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League


If you prick us do we not bleed?

An unborn baby diagnosed with an abnormality or disease, (Thallasemia, Down’s syndrome, AIDS) does NOT become less of a human or non-human.

  • Those who justify and recommend abortion for such “cases” are propagating blind prejudice and bigotry.
  • Hitler used the same reasoning for his mass murder of “lesser humans.”
  • If a child develops a fatal disease or abnormality after birth, should we then kill him because he is not perfect anymore?
  • The arrogance to judge who has the right to life and who doesn’t, leads only to unmatched barbarism;
  • It is a girl-child: sex-selected abortions
  • Too old or too sick: euthanasia (“mercy killing”)
  • Children hacked to death, shot in cold blood, burnt alive; in Rwanda, Bosnia, Gujarat: Ethnic cleansing
 

  Question of Fetal Pain

  • The fetal pain question is not central to the abortion debate. Whether the unborn child suffers pain during an abortion or not is secondary to the much bigger reality--- the child is being killed.
  • Quietly shooting someone in his sleep makes you no less guilty of murder than if you had stabbed him to death.
  • There is growing medical evidence that a 20 weeks foetus in the womb can feel “severe and extreme pain” during an abortion.
  • Sir Albert Lilly, widely considered the “Father of Fetology,” says in his book “The Tiniest Humans” that a foetus is responsive to touch although it lies in a large capsule of fluid.
  • The foetus also responds violently to painful stimuli, needle puncture, and injection of cold & of hypertonic solutions.