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9 weeks according to: ―Accordingly, it is not uncommon in obstetric radiology to detect the foetus sucking thumbs, fingers or toes, and thumbsucking has been photographed in the 9-weeks abortus.‖ Rini,
Beyond Abortion, p. 182.
11 weeks according to: MacDonald, In the Womb (DVD).
13 weeks according to: Restak, The Infant Mind 76 Tallack, In the Womb, p. 83. 77 Sources vary on agreement. 12 weeks according to: picture 10 of 10, BBC News, ―In pictures: Watch me grow.‖
18 weeks according to the ultrasound research by Professor Campbell:
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BBC News, ―Scanner shows unborn babies smile.‖ 30 weeks according to: MacDonald, In the Womb (DVD). 78 MacDonald, In the Womb (DVD). 79
While eye opening has been commonly thought of as occurring at 24 weeks, some fetuses have been seen at 18 weeks opening and closing their eyes : MacDonald, In the Womb (DVD). A backup source for 18 weeks is: BBC News, ―Scans uncover secrets of the…‖ 80 Picture 3 of 10, BBC News, ―In pictures: Watch me grow.‖ 81 Referencing J. Birnhaltz, ―The Development of Human Fetal Eye Movement Patterns,‖ Science, 1981, vol. 213, pp. 679-681 in Willke, Abortion: Questions and Answers, p. 53. 82 MacDonald, In the Womb (DVD). 83 BBC News, ―Scanner shows unborn babies smile.‖ Note: traditionally doctors have speculated the fetus learns to smile by watching its mother but recent discoveries suggest that the fetus is capable of smiling in the womb and that it‘s the stress of change and adjustment that prevents a newborn from smiling till several weeks old. This research suggests the fetus begins to smile all by herself, not by copying mom. While the smiling could possibly be a reflex, smiling is not an automatic action required for survival – rather it‘s one of pleasure: "What's behind the smile, of course, I can't say, but the corners turn up and the cheeks bulge ... I think it must be some indication of contentment in a stress-free environment." (Quoting Professor Campbell from the above mentioned article.) 84 Again, there are varying opinions: 26 weeks according to: BBC News, ―Scanner shows unborn babies smile.‖
28 weeks according to: WebMD, ―Babies may start crying while…‖ 85 MacDonald, In the Womb (DVD). 86 Quoting Illa Ryan in Reardon, Aborted Women, p. 306. 87 Nathanson, The Hand of God, pp. 125-126. 88 Abortion clinics allow unlicensed receptionists to perform ultrasounds: Hsu, ―Abortion clinics operator is charged.‖ 89
Boulder Abortion Clinic, P.C., ―Medical Procedures.‖ 90 Quoting Madonna in WORLDMag.com, ―Quotables: memorable things they said.‖
Notes for Reason #9 91 Quoting an anonymous abortionist who is currently not practicing in Pekkanen, M.D. Doctors Talk About Themselves, p. 90.
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Your Pregnancy. Page numbers and exact measurements listed below: Week 1: Actual size: 0.006 inch, p. 60 Week 7: Actual size: 1-1 1/4 inch, p. 143 Week 10: Actual size: 2.4 inches, p. 184 Week 12: Actual size: 3 ¼ - 4 inches, p. 212 Week 18: Actual size: 5 2/3 – 6 ½ inches, p. 296 Week 21: Actual size: 7.9 inches, p. 338 Week 26: Actual size: 9.8 inches, p. 407 101 Reasons Not to Have an Abortion: A Girl‘s Guide to Informed Choices
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Week 31: Actual size: 11.8 inches, p. 477 Week 35: Actual size: 13.8 inches, p. 529 Week 38: Actual size: 14 ¾ - 15 ¼, p. 570
To keep it accurate, where the size difference was 1/2 inch or more the number was rounded down.
For weeks 7, 12 and 21, I have used the author‘s size comparisons; the rest are my own. Differences in growth may naturally occur in each fetus [see England, Life Before Birth, pp. ix], however I have tried to find common dates and I have relied heavily upon the National Geographic as a reliable source of information.
93 Tallack, In the Womb, p. 34. 94 Tallack, In the Womb, p. 36. 95 Tallack, In the Womb, pp. 40, 44. 96 Bainbridge, Making Babies, p. 134. 97 Nathanielsz, Life in the Womb, p. 47.
98 Tsiaras and Werth, From Conception to Birth, p. 85. 99 Tallack, In the Womb, pp. 48, 50, 52. 100
Tallack, In the Womb, p. 50. 101 MacDonald, In the Womb (DVD). 102
Vaughan, How Life Begins, p. 43. 103 Nilsson and Hamberger , A Child is Born, pp. 98.
104 England, Life Before Birth, pp. 6-7, 153, 117. 105 Tallack, In the Womb, p. 54 106
Tsiaras and Werth, From Conception to Birth, p. 128. 107 Tallack, In the Womb, p. 76. 108
By the time you start your menstrual cycle you‘ll be down to 500,000 – still more than enough for a lifetime!
Greene and Tarkan, Dr. Robert Green‘s Perfect Hormone…, p. 25. 109
Tallack, In the Womb, p. 56. 110 Tsiaras and Werth, From Conception to Birth, p. 162. 111
Tallack, In the Womb, p. 54. 112 Riley,
You and Your Baby, p. 57.
113 I‘mNotSorry.net, ―Zoe‘s Story.‖
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Tsiaras and Werth, From Conception to Birth, p. 199. Note: Other sources say that sporadic movements happen as early as week 6 – see footnote number 74 for more.
115 Doubilet, Benson and Weisman, Your Developing Baby, p. 39. 116 Restak, The Infant Mind, p. 29. 117
Curtis and Schuler, Your Pregnancy, p. 171. 118 England, Life Before Birth, pp. 84, 88. 119
Tallack, In the W omb, p. 77. 120 Nathanson, The Hand of God, p. 4. 121
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122 Tsiaras and Werth, From Conception to Birth, p. 208. 123 Tallack, In the Womb, p. 96.
124 England, Life Before Birth, pp. 72-73, 76, 79. 125
126 Tallack, In the Womb, p. 122. Another source reports that this has been photographed earlier, a 9 week old fetus: ―Accordingly, it is not uncommon in obstetric radiology to detect the foetus sucking thumbs, fingers or toes, and thumbsucking has been photographed in the 9-weeks abortus.‖ Rini, Beyond Abortion, p. 182. 127
Tallack, In the Womb, p. 122. 128 Tsiaras and Werth, From Conception to Birth, p. 162. 129
Tsiaras and Werth, From Conception to Birth, p. 210. 130
131 Referring to ―Life Before Birth,‖ Life Magazine, April 20 1965, pp. 13 in Willke, Abortion: Questions and Answers, p. 48.
132 Vaughan, How Life Begins, p. 74. 133
MacDonald, In the Womb. (DVD)
Notes for Reason #10 134 Quoting Ayn Rand in Capitalism Magazine, ―Frequently Asked Questions.‖ 135
This woman is a pro-choicer! Strange, yes. Like Naomi Wolf she takes the position that abortion is needed but that we should be able to talk about the reality of it. Quoting abortion advocate Judith Arcana at a seminar organized by the Birkbeck College Sociology and Politics Society and Pro-Choice Forum, London, October 1999. Details under Arcana, ―Feminist politics and abortion in…‖
136 Analogy from Alcorn, Pro Life Answers to ProChoice Arguments, p. 73. 137 Wolf, ―Our Bodies, Our Souls.‖ 138
If you are interested in seeing these photographs one of the many websites that has them is: http://abortionno.org. Be warned, the reality of abortion may shock you -— and yet. how can you make a truly informed choice without knowing?
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The specimens are not brutalized. In fact they have nothing to do with abortion. They come from a book designed to educate medical students and are written by a university lecturer. If you are in doubt as to what a fetus (a dead one at that) looks like, you may be able to borrow from the library (as I did): see England, Life Before Birth 140
Live Action Films, ―Planned Parenthood falsely says abortion…‖ 141 Referring to the experience of Fran, a delegate from Preterm abortion clinic attending a meeting of other pro-choice activists to decide on how much they should push for abortion in Hertz, Caught in the Crossfire, p. 122. 142 Childress, (Homepage). 143 Capitalism Magazine, ―Frequently Asked Questions.‖
144 Tucson Women‘s Center, ―Thoughts on Fetal Development.‖
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145 Quoting Stanley Fish in BrainyQuote ―Stanley Fish Quotes.‖ 146 Referring to Justice Harry Blackmun in his delivery of the Supreme Court‘s January 22, 1973 Roe v. Wade decision in Harrison and Gilbert, Abortion Decisions… The 1970s, p. 28.
147 Quoting Justice Harry Blackmun in his delivery of the Supreme Court‘s January 22, 1973 Roe v. Wade decision in Harrison and Gilbert, Abortion Decisions… The 1970s, p. 27.
148 See Justice Roger Taney in his delivery of the Supreme Court‘s March 6,, 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford decision in Harrison and Gilbert, Landmark Decisions of the United States…
This whole court case centers around, does this Negro have the right to sue for his freedom, which they ultimately decided no because they weren‘t certain he was a citizen. Just like the Supreme Court didn‘t accept that a fetus could be a person, they didn‘t give this black slave the benefit of the doubt that he might be a citizen, since the definition wasn‘t clear: ―It does not define what description of persons are intended to be included under these terms, or who shall be regarded as a citizen and one of the people.‖ p. 22 (See also the entire court case pp. 15-34. ) 149 Fletcher, Situation Ethics, p. 39. 150
Ahmed, Jones, Sampath and Schwartz, ―Frances Kissling on Fetal Life.‖ 151
Quoting Justice Harry Blackmun in his delivery of the Supreme Court‘s January 22, 1973 Roe v. Wade decision in Harrison and Gilbert, Abortion Decisions… The 1970s, p. 27. 152 Shultz, ―Top India state court rules…‖ 153
McCorvey, Won by Love, pp. 147-148. 154 Alcorn, Pro Life Answers to ProChoice Arguments, p. 74 155
Maynard-Moody, The Dilemma of the Fetus, p. 74. 156 Alcorn, Pro Life Answers to ProChoice Arguments, p. 30. 157
Quoting Dr. Alfred M. Bongioanni (professor of pediatrics and obstetrics at the University of Pennsylvania) from the Report, Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, 97th Congress, 1st Session 1981 under Colorado For Equal Rights, ―What Science Tells Us.‖ 158 Schwarz, The Moral Question of Abortion, p. 25. 159
NRLC provided photocopy of Cincinnati Medicine, ―2 nd Trimester Abortion: An Interview…‖ 160 For example, ―The fact that a being is a human being…is not relevant to the wrongness of killing it; it is, rather, characteristics like rationality, autonomy and self-consciousness that make a difference. Singer,
Practical Ethics, p. 131. 161
Capitalism Magazine, ―Frequently Asked Questions.‖ 162 For example, ―I have argued the life of a fetus is of no greater value than the life of a non-human animal at a similar level of rationality, self-consciousness, awareness, capacity to feel, etc, and that since no fetus is a person no fetus has the same claim to life as a person. Now it must be admitted that these arguments apply to the newborn baby as much as to the fetus. A week-old baby is not a rational and self-conscious being, and there are many non-human animals whose rationality, self-consciousness, awareness, capacity to feel, and so on, exceed that of a human baby a week, a month, or even a year old. If the fetus does not have the same claim to life as a person, it appears that the newborn baby does not either, and the life of a newborn baby is of less value than the life of a pig, a dog or a chimpanzee.‖ Singer, Practical Ethics, pp. 122-123. 163 He once said, ―If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see, however strange it may be to mine.‖ Quoting Albert Schweitzer from his Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics in WikiQuote, ―Albert Schweitzer.‖
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164 Quoting Albert Schweitzer from The Spiritual Life :Selected Writings Of Albert Schweitzer (1947) in Wikipedia ―Albert Schweitzer.‖
165 Quoting Albert Schweitzer from his Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics in Wikipedia, ―Albert Schweitzer.‖ 166 Alcorn, Pro Life Answers to ProChoice Arguments, pp. 96-97. 167
Alcorn, Pro Life Answers to ProChoice Arguments, p. 94.
Notes for Reason #12 168 Ganz,
Thou Shalt Not Kill, p. 77. 169
I‘mNotSorry.net, ―Maud‘s Story.‖ 170 Wambach, Life Before Life.
Notes for Reason #13 171 Barans, ―Women's Reproductive Self-Determination: Pro Choice…‖ 172 Jahani, ―Abortion in Iranian law.‖ 173 Freeburn, ―Even a "raving atheist" can…‖ 174 Hertz,
Caught in the Crossfire, p. 105. 175
Barans, ―Women's Reproductive Self-Determination: Pro Choice…‖ 176
Denes, In Necessity and Sorrow, p. 158. 177 Mohr,
Abortion in America, p. 165.
Notes for Reason #14 178 This is the definition of viability given by the Supreme Court. 179 Reference for this story: Unruh, ―Coroner says baby at abortion…‖ 180
Capitalism Magazine, ―Frequently Asked Questions.‖ 181 Alcorn, Pro Life Answers to ProChoice Arguments, p. 85. 182
Quoting Justice Harry Blackmun in his delivery of the Supreme Court‘s January 22, 1973 Roe v. Wade decision in Harrison and Gilbert, Abortion Decisions… The 1970s, p. 32. 183
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Benjamin Surgical Services International, ―Abortion Services.‖ 185
Colautti v. Franklin (1979) was the ruling that said it‘s up to the doctor to decide viability. (Willke, Abortion: Questions and Answers, p. 25.) 186
Willke, Abortion: Questions and Answers, p. 58. 187
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NBC6, ―21-week-old miracle baby…‖ 189
MailOnline, ―Home and healthy, the 20 oz…‖
If you want to follow up on Millie one year later go to: Derbyshire, ―Happy birthday to Millie the…‖ 190
Washington Surgi-Clinic, ―Services and Care.‖ 191
Texas Abortion Information, ―Late Abortions.‖ 101 Reasons Not to Have an Abortion: A Girl‘s Guide to Informed Choices
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192 Alcorn, Pro Life Answers to ProChoice Arguments, pp. 89.
Notes for Reason #15 193 Chen,
―Are You Ready to Really…‖ 194
The writer speaking of herself in Lewis, ―Sisterly Solidarity in Anonymity,‖ p. 20 (p. 22 PDF). 195
A Choice for Women, ―What we offer…‖ 196 Reagan with Koop and Muggeridge, Abortion and the Conscience of…, p. 44. 197
The Hope Clinic for Women Ltd., ―Terminating a Pregnancy for Medical Reasons.‖ 198
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Feminist Women‘s Health Center, ―Jill‘s Story.‖ Notes for Reason #16 200 Ahmed, Jones, Sampath and Schwartz, ―Frances Kissling on Fetal Life.‖ 201 At least, as far as the abortion viewpoint goes, it seems like she did. For an example of her opinion borrow her book Motherhood in Bondage, p. 432. 202
Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, ―Abortion.‖
Notes for Reason #17 203 Quoting James A. Garfield in BrainyQuote, ―James A. Garfield Quotes." 204
Quoting Elvis Presley in Brainy Quote, ―Elvis Presley Quotes.‖
205 Kliff, ―Competing Emotions: When I watched…‖ 206 Carol remains the rights holder to this story, which I gained through correspondence with her. Used with permission. 207 Carol remains the rights holder to this story, which I gained through correspondence with her. Used with permission.
Notes for Reason #19 208 Quoting Serrin Foster from Hoopes, ―A Day in the Life…‖ 209 Rachel remains the rights holder to this story, which I gained through correspondence with her. Used with permission. 210
Some ideas from Perry, How to Survive Your Teen‘s…, pp. 49-50. 211 We‘ve all heard about alcohol, but what about caffeine: Gordon, ―Once Again, Caffeine Linked to Miscarriage.‖ 212 Greene and Tarkan, Dr. Robert Green‘s Perfect Hormone…, p. 139
Notes for Reason #20 213 Permission to reprint selections graciously given by Sarah Hinze: Hinze, Songs of the Morning Stars, pp. 11-14. 214
This belief is held for example by Makichen, Spirit Babies: How to Communicate…,‖ p. 125. 215 Thanks to the Ignatius Insight for this last argument. Ignatius Insight, ―Reincarnation: a newly conceived excuse…‖ 101 Reasons Not to Have an Abortion: A Girl‘s Guide to Informed Choices
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216 God is the wrong term actually, as the author of this article does not believe in God. R, ―Pagans and Abortion: A Happy…‖
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The study also found that patients were often aware that they had been born for a reason and that particular circumstances on earth or with members of their family would be beneficial to them or assist them in giving back.
Wambach, Life After Life, pp. 40-63. 218
Quoting ―Ned‖ in Hinze, The Castaways: Safely in His…, p. 73.
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Quoting John Greenleaf Whittier in QuotationsBook, ―Whittier, John Greenleaf Quotes.‖
Notes for Reason #21 220 Hinze,
Songs of the Morning Stars, pp. 106-110. 221
There is more to this story if you are interested…Two good sources and the place I retrieved my information from are:
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