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\"heart-baby\"For years, we in the pro-life movement have been touting every scientific fact or advancement that points to the existence of life inside the womb – from noting that a baby\u2019s heart starts beating just 22 days into pregnancy to holding up 4D ultrasounds that show a baby\u2019s movement, features, even smiles. If only we could prove to pro-choice adherents that this is a live baby, we think, then we could convince them that abortion is taking a real life and that it is murder.<\/p>\n

So the argument goes within our minds. And so, we talk about fetal pain and fetal heartbeats and babies born alive in botched abortions \u2013 persuaded that this is what it will take to win the battle for life.<\/p>\n

And, indeed, it is critical that we continue to talk about these things.<\/p>\n

But the recent pro-abortion orgy at the Texas State House told a very different story from the one logic would dictate. As legislators neared passing a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, hundreds of raucous pro-abortion protestors capped an 11-hour filibuster, making noise such that the legislature was unable to continue its business.<\/p>\n

Now, while 20 weeks is often used as the point after which “late-term<\/a>” abortions are performed, here are some facts<\/a> that are already well-known about fetal development far earlier than 20 weeks.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At 3 weeks, the heart starts beating.
\n\u2022 At 5 weeks, eyes, legs, and hands begin to develop.
\n\u2022 At 6 weeks, fingernails are forming, and facial features are becoming visible.
\n\u2022 At 7 weeks, babies begin kicking.
\n\u2022 At 8 weeks, every organ system is present and in place.
\n\u2022 By 12 weeks, or near the close of the first trimester, the unborn baby has already developed unique fingerprints, a skeletal structure, a spinal cord\u2026and more.<\/p>\n

Yet, despite these facts, which are hardly new to the scientific community \u2013 or to the abortion industry \u2013 an angry mob of abortion-on-demand activists (many of whom would probably call abortion \u201cunfortunate\u201d but argue it should still be available) descended on the Texas State House crying for government to validate the desire to stop a beating heart.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Hasn\u2019t science proven life?<\/p>\n

The answer, of course, is yes.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost ironic. When pro-life arguments are based on faith (heaven forbid), the pro-abortion lobby wants scientific evidence. When pro-life arguments are based on scientific evidence \u2013 as they undoubtedly now are (case in point: Gosnell) and have been for some time \u2013 the pro-choice lobby remains unconvinced.<\/p>\n

Perhaps unconvinced is the wrong word, though. \u201cUn-dissuaded\u201d is far better. For as recent events have made profoundly clear, it’s not that the abortion industry doesn’t believe the unborn baby is a living human being; it’s that the abortion industry simply doesn’t care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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