Life of The Unborn Child

Life of The Unborn Child

Awakening the spirit of humanity through literary piece

Courtesy: John L Rothra

“Lo, children are heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.  As arrows in the land of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.”

—     PSALM 127:3-4 KJV

Every living creature is called to become what is meant to be. The caterpillar is meant to become a butterfly; a seed into a full grown herb, bush or tree; and a human baby into a mature person, the person “who is fully alive, the glory of God” in the words of St. Irenaeus.

A number of researches of human development have been conducted. A lot of theories for human development have been forwarded. The process of human development involves beginnings and endings. What was this organism then? What will this organism be?

How this development happens is what we learn in our biology class. We’ve seen it to be a fantastic process. So wonderful process that we can’t help but experience a feeling of awe for the Power or Force or the Principle, God, as theist call this Power or Force. Hence, do you agree that that which is developing in the womb is a mere ‘blob of tissue’ or ‘uterine contents’ as abortionist claim?

 THE SILENT SCREAM 

I remember the film on abortion that I once saw, “The Silent Scream”. The mother submitted herself to a medical doctor for abortion in her third month of pregnancy. When the abortionist inserted his scalpel into the mother’s womb to crush the head of the fetus, very clearly in that film, the fetus had his/her mouth open like he was screaming for help as he evaded the deadly scalpel of the abortionist.

 That’s why the film was given the title “The Silent Scream”. This only means that the developing being in the womb is a human being and not just a conglomeration of cells or tissue.

That which is in the mother’s womb is indeed a developing human being. An unborn baby of eight weeks is not essentially different from one of eighteen weeks or twenty-eight weeks. From conception the zygote, the embryo and the fetus are undeniably human life.

Human life begins from the moment of conception. All that we have, all that we are have been there at the moment of conception!  The fact that you have brown eyes and black straight or curly hair, and the fact that you will turn bald at age 50 have been there at the moment of conception.

I wanted to share the article that I have read titled Life Before Birth which unveil the undeniable truth that the developing being inside the womb is life.

LIFE BEFORE BIRTH

The development of the unborn child

            The development of human life in the womb was once a mystery, but science and medicine have changed that. Abortion advocates still try to dehumanize the developing baby in the womb by speaking of the child as “a blob of tissue” or “uterine contents.” But ultra sound images, pre-natal surgery and other advances in obstetrics are shattering the blob-of-tissue myth.

            Dr. Paul Rockwell, a New York physician, made these profound observations after his amazing encounter with a tiny unborn baby: “Eleven years ago, when I was giving an anesthetic for a ruptured ectopic pregnancy (at two months gestation), I was handed what I was believe was the smallest living human ever seen. The embryo sac was intact and transparent. Within the sack was a tiny human male swimming extremely vigorously in the amniotic fluid, while attached to the wall by the umbilical cord.

This tiny human was perfectly developed, with long, tampering fingers, feet and toes. It was transparent, as regards the skin and the delicate arteries and veins were prominent to the ends of the fingers. “The baby was extremely alive and swam about the sac approximately one time per second, with a natural swimmer’s stroke. This tiny human did not look at all like the photos and drawings and models of ‘embryos’ which I have seen, nor did it look like a few embryos I have been able to observe since then, obviously because this one was alive.

When the sac was opened, the tiny human immediately lost its life and took on the appearance of what is accepted as the appearance of an embryo at this stage (blunt extremities, etc.)

“It is my opinion that if the lawmakers and people realize that this very vigorous life is present, it is possible that abortion would be found more objectionable than euthanasia.”

The point at which Dr. Rockwell witnessed this unborn baby – eight weeks after conception – is during the period that a majority of abortionist describe as most desirable for performing an abortion.

Source: https://www.mccl.org/prenataldevelopment

Based on these facts, it is wrong to do abortion. The womb is supposed to be the safest all places for human development. Unfortunately, however, with scourge of abortion it has become a tomb!

Look at yourself. You are perfectly made, the one “who is fully alive, the glory of God” or should we say “the heritage of the Lord” (Ps. 127:3). The cells of your lips are at your lips. Your mouth is close to your nose. You can breathe normally. You are a bundle of possibilities. If you can live, like any other living thing is meant to be; so are babies inside the wombs of all mothers around the world.

− Kim Menendez