{"id":183019,"date":"2018-05-23T11:36:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T15:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=183019"},"modified":"2018-05-23T12:49:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T16:49:19","slug":"photo-miscarried-babies-preborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/photo-miscarried-babies-preborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful photo of miscarried babies reveals humanity of the preborn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On May 19, 2018, Kayla Holmes took a bold step on social media, sharing photos of her miscarried children, Barnabas and Hannah, who each passed away during the second trimester of Holmes’ pregnancies. She shared their photos to reveal “what two precious little babies look like, even at these early stages,” according to her Facebook post<\/a>, in the hope that people might see the truth about the preborn, especially in light of Ireland’s upcoming referendum on the 8th Amendment, which has served to protect life in the womb since 1983.<\/p>\n

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Holmes wrote:<\/p>\n

With the coming referendum in Ireland, David and I felt we should share these pictures of our two children. We lost Barnabas at 14 weeks and Hannah at 19. This is what two precious little babies look like, even at these early stages. If the abortion laws change in Ireland, it will open the door for babies just like our two children to be killed. We\u2019re sharing these pictures because we want everyone to look closely. Abortion is supposedly about showing love and respect to women, but at what cost? In reality, abortion is about the killing of the most innocent people in our society. Barnabas and Hannah died of natural causes, but if the law changes, hundreds and thousands of babies will be intentionally killed by those who should love them the most. Barnabas and Hannah brought great joy into our lives, and we hope their deaths can also be used to cause others to reconsider the seriousness of abortion. Please feel free to share this with others if you want to.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

READ: First trimester babies aren’t blobs of tissue — they’re amazingly complex<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

As you can see from Holmes’ photo, at 14 and 19 weeks, these babies are very clearly human and very developed, though small. Their facial features are recognizable. By weeks 13-14<\/a>, “most of the baby\u2019s body is ‘sensitive to touch’ and his teeth are beginning to grow,” and between weeks 15 and 20, “a baby in the womb has a complete corpus callosum (a band of nerve fibers that connect the brain\u2019s hemispheres), develops sweat glands, has ‘hormonal stress responses to invasive procedures,’ has stem cells in his bone marrow, and has functioning digestive enzymes.”<\/p>\n