{"id":84117,"date":"2016-03-03T11:39:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T16:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=84117"},"modified":"2017-11-25T21:39:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T02:39:48","slug":"12-amazing-facts-prove-preborn-humanity-first-trimester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/12-amazing-facts-prove-preborn-humanity-first-trimester\/","title":{"rendered":"12 amazing facts that prove the preborn’s humanity in the first trimester"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With today\u2019s modern technology and medical information, we have a real-time window into the womb. What happens to babies before birth \u2013 all the ways they move, grow, and change \u2013 is nothing short of amazing. The first trimester is full of developments that many pregnant mothers may not be aware of.<\/p>\n

Here are just 12 scientific\u00a0facts\u00a0that happen to babies before they are born. These 12 facts demonstrate the uniqueness, value, and humanity of preborn children. What\u2019s more, each of these 10 things occur\u00a0in the first trimester \u2013 when approximately 90% of abortions in the U.S. occur.<\/p>\n

Note: All dates given below are at the gestational age of the preborn child, that is, weeks from conception (fertilization). LMP dating would add approximately two weeks to each age.<\/p>\n

1)<\/strong> Preborn babies have their own unique DNA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Science tells us the human embryo is a “developing individual<\/a>” while in the womb.\u00a0Physical changes occur quickly\u00a0from the moment of fertilization.
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\n<\/a>Modern science indisputably recognizes the preborn child as a new human being. As Dr. Micheline Matthews-Roth of Harvard Medical School says<\/a>: \u201cIt is scientifically correct to say that an individual human life begins at conception, when egg and sperm join to form the zygote, and this developing human always is a member of our species in all stages of its life.\u201d Dr. Jerome Lejeune – the scientist who discovered Down syndrome – agreed<\/a>: “Life has a very long history, but each of us has a very neat beginning – the moment of conception.” (More science on life’s beginning here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Recombinant DNA technologies, discovered after\u00a0abortion was legalized throughout the U.S. indisputably prove that the unborn child “is a whole human being from the moment of fertilization, that all abortions terminate the life of a living human being, and that the unborn child is a separate human patient under the care of modern medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Countless medical textbooks<\/a> \u2013 from various science specialties \u2013 agree. From the very first moment, a human being is a human being.<\/p>\n

2) Organs begin to develop within three weeks<\/strong><\/p>\n

At\u00a0two to three weeks<\/a>, a baby\u2019s brain is the \u201cfirst organ to appear,\u201d and the baby\u2019s\u00a0kidneys are present<\/a>\u00a0at only five weeks.<\/p>\n

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Baby at 8 weeks<\/p><\/div>\n

In fact by eight weeks<\/a>, all of the baby\u2019s organs are in place and only need time to become fully developed.<\/p>\n

3) A baby\u2019s heart begins to beat as early as 16 days<\/a>, and is certainly by\u00a022 days.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is a video of the baby\u2019s heart beating at four weeks and four days.<\/p>\n