Thoughts for the future...

So much has been on my mind.  

I have been heartsick to see how young people are embracing abortion as if it is a wonderful thing - something to brag about and revel in.

The people who are doing this consider themselves enlightened and the "kind and caring" ones.  But I  can't fathom how one gets to this point in their lives and not understand they are devoid of love, compassion, and are so out of touch with their soul.

Because I believe you can't kill your baby and not feel like you are dead inside - just as dead as the baby you had ripped from your body.  It changes you.

People have been lied to by Planned Parenthood.  They are told that even at 3-4 months old, their baby is just a blob of tissue - not even recognizable.  However, that is just not true.  By the time the baby is one month old, it looks like a baby - not a mass of tissue.  But if you still want to believe that fallacy - then here's a cold hard fact...  if that formed baby is a blob of tissue, then so are you.  

You might say that you are a higher form and more biologically advanced than a fetus.  But I looked up stages of development online, and surprisingly, at a very early stage.  The word fetus (Latin for offspring) is used technically for when the child begins to look like its mature form - in humans, that would be by the end of the 2nd month.  Here is an excerpt from the Cleveland Clinic website "Fetal Development: Stages of Growth".  

Month 1

As the fertilized egg grows, a water-tight sac forms around it, gradually filling with fluid. This is called the amniotic sac, and it helps cushion the growing embryo.

The placenta also develops. The placenta is a round, flat organ that transfers nutrients from the mother to the baby, and transfers wastes from the baby.

A primitive face will take form with large dark circles for eyes. The mouth, lower jaw, and throat are developing. Blood cells are taking shape, and circulation will begin. The tiny "heart" tube will beat 65 times a minute by the end of the fourth week. By the end of the first month, your baby is about 1/4 inch long – smaller than a grain of rice!

Month 2

Your baby's facial features continue to develop. Each ear begins as a little fold of skin at the side of the head. Tiny buds that eventually grow into arms and legs are forming. Fingers, toes and eyes are also forming.

The neural tube (brain, spinal cord and other neural tissue of the central nervous system) is well formed. The digestive tract and sensory organs begin to develop. Bone starts to replace cartilage.

The head is large in proportion to the rest of the baby's body.

By the end of the second month, your baby is about 1 inch long and weighs about 1/30 of an ounce.

At about 6 weeks, your baby's heart beat can usually be detected.

After the 8th week, your baby is called a fetus instead of an embryo.

Month 3

Your baby's arms, hands, fingers, feet, and toes are fully formed. Your baby can open and close its fists and mouth. Fingernails and toenails are beginning to develop and the external ears are formed. The beginnings of teeth are forming. Your baby's reproductive organs also develop, but the baby's gender is difficult to distinguish on ultrasound.

By the end of the third month, your baby is fully formed. All the organs and extremities are present and will continue to mature in order to become functional. The circulatory and urinary systems are working and the liver produces bile.

At the end of the third month, your baby is about 4 inches long and weighs about 1 ounce.

Since your baby's most critical development has taken place, your chance of miscarriage drops considerably after three months.

By the end of the THIRD MONTH the baby is FULLY FORMED.  Let that sink in for a moment.

At no time in its development does the baby look like a blob of tissue as Planned Parenthood says the fetus looks like. It will be a clump of cells only in the first 2 weeks, and quickly develops into a recognizable form - one that begins to resemble a human baby.  Here is a picture of the embryo at 8 days - attached to the uterine wall.  It has purpose as a living thing.  This photo was taken by Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson, who spent a good part of his life photographing the development of babies in the womb.

Lennart Nilsson shows us an 8 week old baby looks like this:

Not a blob of tissue. And yet this is what is removed from a woman's body.  There is video of an 8 week old baby moving its arms and legs.  You can find that video HERE.

I can tell you that the strongest instinct in all living things is the will to live.

I am forever grateful to my Chinese daughters' mothers who did whatever they had to do to give birth to them.  They gave our daughters life, and I pray that God blesses them every day.  And I can tell you that my daughters are forever grateful for that life.  They know that their mothers, being in China, could have had forced abortions.  Not sure how they kept from getting into trouble with the authorities - but GOOD FOR THEM! 

My youngest, when in middle school, would argue with high school students that abortion was wrong.  And she did so fearlessly and with logic.  She has had discussions with classmates who are willing to listen to her point of view (and they will have a discussion not an argument) and she would be minding her own business, when someone in the class will overhear and begin to argue with her.  However, she listens and then points out their contradictions they make as they say one thing and then another that is totally opposite of their original statement. She isn't mean, just not afraid to point out their inconsistencies.  Fearless.