{"id":187456,"date":"2018-09-03T10:49:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=187456"},"modified":"2018-08-31T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T20:55:09","slug":"living-baby-swimming-ectopic-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/living-baby-swimming-ectopic-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor sees tiny living baby ‘swimming’ in amniotic sac after ectopic pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 1970, Fordham law professor Robert M. Byrn detailed<\/a>\u00a0his objections to abortion in a case\u00a0published<\/a> in the Notre Dame Law Review. Byrn, a criminal law specialist, gave explicit details of the abortion procedure in this article and also\u00a0filed<\/a> an unsuccessful\u00a0challenge<\/a> to New York’s state abortion law.\u00a0Byrn wrote<\/a> of the preborn baby, in part, saying, “The fetus at eight weeks has a pumping heart with fully deployed blood vessels and has all other internal organs. The face is completely formed, and the arms, legs, hands, feet, toes and fingers are partially formed. The fetus will react to tickling of the mouth or nose, and there is readable electrical activity coming from the brain.”<\/p>\n

Byrn then shared some haunting statements from physician Paul E. Rockwell, M.D., Director of Anesthesiology at Leonard Hospital in Troy, New York, who said, “Photographs of the fetus around the eighth week present an unmistakable human baby with rather blunt features and extremities.\u00a0 However, such pictures invariably have been taken after the death of the fetus following an abortion,” adding, “It is death which superimposes the bluntness of appearance.”<\/p>\n

READ: These 10 images may change your mind about abortion<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Robert M Byrn challenges NY abortion (Image credit: NYT 12\/4\/1971)<\/p><\/div>\n

Rockwell went on to describe his experience seeing a child yet living after treating a woman for an ectopic pregnancy at two months:<\/p>\n

Eleven years ago while giving an anesthetic for a ruptured ectopic pregnancy (at two months gestation) I was handed what I believe was the smallest living human being ever seen. The embryo sac was intact and transparent. Within the sac was a tiny (approx. 1 cm.) human male swimming extremely vigorously in the amniotic fluid, while attached to the wall by the umbilical cord. This tiny human was perfectly developed, with long, tapering fingers, feet and toes. It was almost transparent, as regards the skin, and the delicate arteries and veins were prominent to the ends of the fingers.<\/em><\/p>\n

The baby was extremely alive and swam about the sac approximately one time per second, with a natural swimmer’s stroke. This tiny human did not look at all like the photos and drawings and models of “embryos” which I have seen, nor did it look like a few embryos I have been able to observe since then, obviously because this one was alive!<\/em><\/p>\n

…When the sac was opened, the tiny human immediately lost its life and took on the appearance of what is accepted as the appearance of an embryo at this age.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is my opinion that if the lawmakers and people realized that very vigorous life is present, it is possible that abortion would be found much more objectionable than euthanasia.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rockwell went on to describe gruesome abortion procedures being used at that time, including\u00a0the saline abortion (see Baby Choice<\/a>) and hysterotomy abortion, as shown in this 1981 Hayes Publishing<\/a> pro-life brochure (graphic image warning<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Live Action News has previously<\/a> described gruesome experiments<\/a> on living abortion survivors, dating back to the 1930s. University of Pittsburgh anatomist Davenport Hooker conducted research<\/a> on children who survived surgical abortion by\u00a0hysterotomy<\/a>\u00a0and, in\u00a01952, he assembled his footage into a silent educational film called \u201cEarly Fetal Human Activity.\u201d The film showed the muscle activity of six fetuses ranging from 8 1\/2 to 14 weeks.\u201d\u00a0Video from that film can be viewed below (warning<\/strong><\/span>: Images may be disturbing to some)…<\/p>\n