I thought the writer was going to say he used the amplifier to hear a fetal heartbeat.
I remember back in 1995 just one month after my son was conceived being in the OB/GYN office and having them place the heartbeat monitor on my wife’s abdomen and hearing a very rapid, but very distinct heartbeat of our son. I also remember being at the same office at 15 weeks after conception and seeing the first ultrasound of our child. He probably was less than 3” long, but was fully recognizable as a human....in fact we could even tell his gender at that time. He moving around and looking very human.
I was already theoretically pro-life and anti-abortion, but those experiences really solidified my views from theory to practice. I knew I had a son, in utero, that was growing to be a person. He is 16 now and the joy of my life. Although, I really suck at being a father....I love him more than my own life. This is something I didn’t understand until he was born.
Just because some other person’s “yet born” child is not wanted, they become so much tissue to be riped out and destroyed. This just doesn’t make sense to me. A baby in utereo isn’t just potential person, it is a person under development.
We have, in this country, condoned the genocide of innocent women and children in war. We prosecute those that practice it as war criminals. Then we allow it to take place everyday in our country. There is something terribly wrong with this situation.
Sorry, for the sermon.
I thought the writer was going to say he used the amplifier to hear a fetal heartbeat.Actually, I did, too.
(Now, can you imagine if you could hear a fetal heartbeat through certain amplifiers? Say, a Marshall? The poor kid would sound like he was beating war drums before screaming, Lemme outta here! Lemme outta here! I'm getting claustrophobia packed inside this pear! Either you give birth to me now or I'm gonna kick your lobster dinner right the hell back up your pipes!!)