It's Alive! - I was taught in my public school upbringing that the "foetus" growing in the womb of an impregnated woman was a mass of tissues, a foreign growth not unlike a tumor.
Well, if it's like a tumor it must be cut out.
Thankfully, that teaching never took. Instead, it was the respect for life in all it's imperfect forms which my parents instilled in me despite the best efforts of the public school system.
Today, because of the work of Professor Stuart Campbell of London's Create Health Clinic, I'm reminded about how right my parents continue to be and how wrong groups like the misnamed Planed Parenthood remain to this day.
Professor Campbell has pioneered what is arguably the most detailed views inside man's first world of exploration, the womb. In this protective world, the child early on begins exhibiting behaviors of touching, feeling, looking, and even smiling.
The photo above is of a child, a person, who at eight weeks along in life is already kicking and moving around with new found abilities.
The BBC is running a picture series that I suggest all view.
Joe Carter of the evangelical outpost pens in considering the wonder of these images:
As the Creator molds a new member of the human family within a mother’s womb we are able to use tools developed by man’s ingenuity and intellect to admire the magisterial process.
Remarkable.
Indeed. And humbling.
(Hat tips to the Drudge Report, the evangelical outpost, and Ex Nihlo.)
