This remarkable photograph of a tiny fetus in its unruptured amniotic sac was taken after surgery for an ectopic pregnancy in 1972. This picture demonstrates the development of a baby at only six weeks after conception.
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The brain is fully developed and the fetus can suck, swallow, and make irregular breathing sounds. Fetus can feel pain (New England Journal of Medicine). Fetal skin is almost transparent. Muscles tissue is lengthening and bones are becoming harder. Liver and organs produce appropriate fluids. Eyebrows and eyelashes appear and the fetus makes active movements including kicks and even somersaults.
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?Quickening? (when the mother can feel the fetus moving) usually occurs around this time. Finger and toenails appear. Lanugo, a fine hair now covers the entire body. The fetus can hear and recognize the mother?s voice. Sex organs are visible on ultrasound devices.
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A protective waxy substance called Vernix covers the skin. By birth, most of the vernix will be gone but any that is left is quickly absorbed. Fetus has a hand and startle reflex. Footprints and fingerprints are forming. Fetus practices breathing by inhaling amniotic fluid into its developing lungs.
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Rapid brain development occurs during this period and the nervous system is able to control some bodily functions. The fetus? eyelids now open and close. At 25 weeks there is a 60% chance of survival if born. The fetus is considered legally viable at 28 weeks and there is a 90% chance of survival if born at this point.
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There is a rapid increase in the amount of body fat the fetus has. Rhythmic breathing occurs, but the lungs are not yet mature. The fetus sleeps 90-95% of the day. At this point there the survival rate is above 95% if the baby is born.
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The fetus is considered full-term. Lanugo is gone except on upper arms and shoulders. Hair on the baby?s head is now coarser and thicker. The lungs are mature. The average weight of the baby at this point is seven and a half pounds. At birth the placenta detaches from the uterus and the umbilical cord will be cut as the baby takes his first breaths of air. Breathing will trigger changes in the heart and bypass arteries forcing all blood to now travel through the lungs.
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"Baby Samuel Armas's tiny fingers grasped the doctor's huge hand - - not at birth, or as a result of a premature delivery but, at 21 weeks, as one of the youngest unborn babies ever to undergo surgery to relieve the effects of spina bifida and hydrocephalus, birth defects that can lead to severe disabilities.
Doctors now agree that the earlier repairs can be made on these babies, the less severe the problems will be when the child is born. This realization has stimulated a search for ways to correct anomalies while the child is in utero, rather than take the more traditional route and wait to make surgical repairs after birth.. . "
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"If the entire population of the world were put into the land area of Texas, each person would have an area equal to the floor space of a typical U.S. home and the population density of Texas would be about the same as Paris, France.
Fertilization is the exact moment when a new human being comes into existence. This one-celled life which has inherited 23 chromosomes from each parent contains the entire genetic code for every detail of individual human development. It has its own genetically distinct DNA and may have a completely different blood type (not to mention sex) than the mother.
At about eight days after conception, the fertilized ovum (blastocyst) implants in the lining of the uterus. It emits chemical substances which weaken the woman's immune system within the uterus so that this tiny "foreign" body is not rejected by the woman's body.
A baby's heart begins to beat 21 days after conception.
Brain waves start registering on an electroencephalogram (EEG) 42 days after conception. This is the legal standard for determining if someone is alive after birth.
By the eighth week of pregnancy, every organ is present and in place. Everything found in an adult human being can now be found in this tiny embryo which is now only about an inch and a half long."
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Let's love them ALL...a perfect people, a perfect family, perfect situations, all perfect circumstances, perfect times, and well, everything else perfect too! Funny, how THAT goes!?
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Originally posted by GoodBusiness: Let's love them ALL...a perfect people, a perfect family, perfect situations, all perfect circumstances, perfect times, and well, everything else perfect too! Funny, how THAT goes!?
Let us not do harm and protect the right to life.
Everyone should be treated with dignity. A woman's dignity is closely connected with the love which she receives by the very reason of her femininity and likewise is connected with the love which she gives in return. ("Dignity of Women" by JPII)
I'm not perfect and yet it seems that others believe in perfect babies. Or 'Right to (Perfect) Lif-ers'. The fact that you (GG) assail my argument, 'harms' me. Take pity! On me! In re-statement: privacy is, well, good.
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