Womb 'smile' fires abortion row

The Age Online ^ | September 14, 2003 | By Rebecca Urban, James Meikle

[miltonim]

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I was surprised when I saw a story on this baby's picture on a regular TV network channel. What is this world coming to?!?

[MEG33]

I can't link but GE has a remarkable video demo available.I think it is such a wonderful sight.

[Tired of Taxes]

I can't believe this is news. I still remember watching my oldest on ultrasound at just 19 weeks. He was swimming around, obviously having a good time in there, and he had the most innocent expression on his face. I will never forget it.

[wideawake]

Dr Brodie, of Australian Birth Control Services, said it was still unknown if smiles, or other facial movements, were the result of neurological reflexes or emotional development.

wideawake, of Baby Murderer Observation Services, said it was still unknown if seething hatred of unborn children is the result of neurological defects or emotional underdevelopment.

[miltonim]

See GE Commercial for 3D-4D Ultrasound:

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[Blood of Tyrants]

The server will link automatically if you don't put any HTML tags in the post. Just copy the ling, paste it, and hit the Post button.

[SkyPilot]

Whether the facial expressions are an emotional response or merely physical reflex is likely to be debated.

Pathetic. Is that the best they can do!

They even question if these unborn children are "human beings." No, actually they are frogs. Sheesh.

[MEG33]

Thanks.It's been a long time since I had a baby so it is remarkable to me.

[MEG33]

Miltonin did it!

[CanisRex]

I am right with you! My wife is 18 weeks and we have seen the baby kick, "wave", and shimmy during the last two ultrasounds. News of this sort is going to help us in the fight to outlaw Abortion.

[miltonim]

Thanks, let my try that,


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http://www.gemedicalsystems.com/rad/us/video/4d-100k.asx

GE commercial in windows media player format slow
http://www.gemedicalsystems.com/rad/us/video/4d-28k.asx

GE commercial in Real player format fast
http://www.gemedicalsystems.com/rad/us/video/4d-100k.rm

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[miltonim]

Absolutely!

[freeangel]

I am afraid nothing will help outlaw abortion until moral representatives are elected. There are just too many people willing to murder babies because they impinge on their lifestyle.

[StriperSniper]

Why does a baby blink when we assume it is dark inside the uterus?" Professor Campbell(Obstetrician) said.

Well if Professor Campbell thinks the only reason for blinking is the presence of light, he should be tied to a stake with his eyes sewn open in a sandstorm in the middle of the night in the Sahara. Afterall, there will be no need for him to blink.

[MEG33]

I believe the only thing that will really work is to change minds and hearts.

[Mamzelle]

re: Well if Professor Campbell thinks the only reason for blinking is the presence of light, he should be tied to a stake with his eyes sewn open in a sandstorm in the middle of the night in the Sahara. )))

Whence this hostility?

Prof. Campbell merely posits what I'd say was an interesting enough question (though the babe probably blinks in REM sleep); I don't see that it is partisan one way or another. Prof. Campbell does say "baby" after all, which is something of a giveaway as to his probable opinion on the nature of preborn human life.

[Tailgunner Joe]

ping!

[r9etb]

I believe the only thing that will really work is to change minds and hearts.

Correct. Right now, "minds and hearts" are governed by sympathy for the pregnant women -- this baby will cause them a lot of stress and inconvenience, which we can all understand.

The only counter to this is to re-establish the understanding of what the "choice" is really all about --that "reason X" is sufficient to justify the death of the unborn child.

The task is to establish that second part in peoples' minds -- that we're talking about reasons to decide to kill a child. This technology might do it -- but not on its own.

[SarahW]

I know at least one baby that smiled right after birth: my son.

He was crying while the nurses and doctors poked him, but when dad held him up to my face for the first time ( I couldn't hold him because my abdomen was being stitched up), he not only calmed but smiled.

We have a picture of him swaddled on my hospital bed, taken as we prepared to get ready to go home. He is smiling.

A friend saw the picture and said - that's not a newborn, thats a six-month old baby! But he was four days old.

[MHGinTN]

Prenatal babies have been proven to have brainwave activity just like that seen in dreaming adults. The scare to the champions of serial killing to the preborn is that their dehumanization of the preborn (which is actually the founding principle of the abortion on demand/women's special right to choose a serial killer) will suddenly be called into question as the very real humanity of the preborn is revealed!