Posted on 03/05/2005 7:37:31 PM PST by baseball_fan
Full-frontal images of a vagina are available on cable Sunday night, but they come at a price. You have to watch a bloody, hairy baby burst through that vagina, and before that you have to watch the little creature in utero, growing in all its Operation Rescue propaganda detail, in the National Geographic Channel's latest unveiling of the hideous miracle of life.
"In the Womb" is actually a cool, beautiful movie, a celebration of computer imaging and the 4-D ultrasound. It exhibits a minimum of politics, probably because it appears to have been made in England, where the acknowledgement that humans in the womb are complex, dreaming, pain-experiencing, memory-having, walk-practicing, music-enjoying entities does not instantly put you in the same camp as doctor assassins and purveyors of "The Silent Scream."
Instead of politics, what "In the Womb" delivers is the majesty of science. The filmmakers follow an unnamed woman through her pregnancy, down to the smallest observable detail; where this one pregnancy - the one that results in a live birth at the end of the film - fails to tell the whole story, images of other embryos and fetuses, some computer-generated, are brought in.
The results include a stirring set of images, and a number of revelations. The first is that the path of sperm from testes to egg, which has until recently been a mystery, may be determined by smell: sperm may be able to scent out the egg. The second is that fetuses start practicing walking while in the womb; the stepping reflex is visible as early as 11 weeks into the pregnancy.
The third revelation is that babies can recognize their mothers' voices prenatally, and even reflect an appreciation of their mothers' rhythms in their own postnatal cries....snip
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I pray you are right. I pray hearts are softened.
pro life ping
The writer's tone sounds like she was raised on NARAL rallies and episodes of "Sex and the City." I would bet that her circle of friends consider abortion a right of passage.
Er, rite. The "Miracle of Life" as described by the Manhattan dinner party set.
I pray you are correct, but alas, the purveyors of serial killing as enlightened empowerment for women will not be deterred. In there twisted minds, the unborn have been successfully dehumanized to the point that even the 11 week baby practicing walking will be derided as mere reflex. You see, the truth that at least one individual human lifetime begins with each conception (whether in petri dish or fallopian tube) is anathema to people who've infested so much of their soul to dehumanize the little ones. Nothing can be allowed to deter that effort, nothing.
"I pray you are right. I pray hearts are softened."
Agree with you there. I think this may be akin to when people finally recognized the wrong in slavery, that these are human beings we're talking about and society has to do more to create an environment where the mother and child can be protected.
Agreed. It muddles the point.
How pathetic of the NY Times. I really think the left have gone so far over the edge they have simply stopped any pretense of normality. This is another clear sign of the MSM imploding.
Well, it does seem the tide is turning toward the pro-life side, or maybe it's that the MSM doesn't control every bit of information anymore and we know that there are more people with us than against us.
>>>You have to watch a bloody, hairy baby burst through that vagina, and before that you have to watch the little creature in utero,>>>
Bobby Hill while watching his step-grandmother give birth: AAAHHHH, it's got hair!!!!
How pathetic of the NY Times. I really think the left have gone so far over the edge they have simply stopped any pretense of normality. This is another clear sign of the MSM imploding.
It does seem ridiculous that filming the actual fact is seen as "propaganda."
....as though we are all lusting for a free glimpse at the above mentioned anatomy. Is that what the NYT thinks of their readers?
I am just speechless at this incredible crude and insensitive piece.
So this sophisticated adult female author never knew until now about the reality of childbirth? The last paragraph of the article is as immature as the first.
"...and before that you have to watch the little creature in utero, growing in all its Operation Rescue propaganda detail,..."
She's trying hard to deny the reality of what she's seeing. What a cold-hearted b*tch!
"You see, the truth that at least one individual human lifetime begins with each conception (whether in petri dish or fallopian tube) is anathema to people who've infested so much of their soul to dehumanize the little ones. Nothing can be allowed to deter that effort, nothing."
You are so correct. It is indeed sad, but very true. May God show mercy and bring a Great Awakening to this country.
Thank you so much NYT. I am no longer lumped in with "doctor assassins" because I marvel at the wonder of human birth. I feel so liberated now.
This writer is sick, sick, sick.
We are, as a family going to sit down together and watch this.
As a side note I can see the face of GOD everytime I look into the faces of my children!
"... these are human beings we're talking about and society has to do more to create an environment where the mother and child can be protected." BINGO! We the People are the rulers of this Republic. If we will welcome these little ones and aid their mothers, we the people will end this heinous blot to our national soul. But don't hold your breath; out of sight out of mind, and the utilitarian aspects of the serial killing have already inveigled the nation's soul. These human beings are now becoming fair game for killing and harvesting, all the way back to their earliest age as embryo and Senaros like Orrin Hatch are enablers, touting the embryo as not human until implanted in a woman's body. Good Mormon, that!
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