Unborn Babies Can Form Memories by 30 Weeks
And, as NewsBusters reports, ABC's Good Morning America is careful to keep these scientific results separate from the fact that, in this country, it is legal to kill a 30-week-old human being that can, among many other human activities, form memories:
A new study found that unborn babies may start to develop memories as early as thirty weeks into a pregnancy, but ABC’s “Good Morning America” ignored the study’s potential impact on the abortion debate, especially concerning late term abortion.
Reporter Sharyn Alfonsi’s July 15 segment covered the pivotal study without even mentioning abortion. Anchor Chris Cuomo attempted to broach the issue during a follow-up interview but fell short.
Alfonsi touted the study, “Day by day, a fetus goes through remarkable changes. By 30 weeks, opening and closing their eyes. Making facial expressions. And now, a new study reveals, forming memories. Yep, barely three pounds, but already able to remember. For the study, researchers used a fetal monitor to make a buzzing sound against a mother's belly. The noise and vibrations startle the fetus and it typically reacts by moving. But with repeated applications of the buzzing the fetus learns its okay and does not have to react. And four weeks later, when the fetus is buzzed again, many don't react at all, because researchers say they now remember the sound.” [Read on...]
In 2005, for instance, over 15,000 abortions occurred past the 20-week mark in the pregnancy.
LifeBusters continues:
So if the study is correct, in many of those cases, the babies aborted were developed enough to have short- and perhaps long-term memory.“Good Morning America” preferred to focus its report on prenatal care. Alfonsi visited a prenatal yoga class and one pregnant woman said the class was helping her “be more conscious of my own emotional and physical state.”
The memory study, Alfonsi said, “… is proof that we need to be more careful about what experiences we expose babies to in the womb.” Like the experience of, say, murder?
Let's be clear, George Tiller killed unborn children at this late stage of development.
A new study found that unborn babies may start to develop memories as early as thirty weeks into a pregnancy, but ABC’s “Good Morning America” ignored the study’s potential impact on the abortion debate, especially concerning late term abortion.
Reporter Sharyn Alfonsi’s July 15 segment covered the pivotal study without even mentioning abortion. Anchor Chris Cuomo attempted to broach the issue during a follow-up interview but fell short.
Alfonsi touted the study, “Day by day, a fetus goes through remarkable changes. By 30 weeks, opening and closing their eyes. Making facial expressions. And now, a new study reveals, forming memories. Yep, barely three pounds, but already able to remember. For the study, researchers used a fetal monitor to make a buzzing sound against a mother's belly. The noise and vibrations startle the fetus and it typically reacts by moving. But with repeated applications of the buzzing the fetus learns its okay and does not have to react. And four weeks later, when the fetus is buzzed again, many don't react at all, because researchers say they now remember the sound.” [Read on...]
In 2005, for instance, over 15,000 abortions occurred past the 20-week mark in the pregnancy.
LifeBusters continues:
So if the study is correct, in many of those cases, the babies aborted were developed enough to have short- and perhaps long-term memory.“Good Morning America” preferred to focus its report on prenatal care. Alfonsi visited a prenatal yoga class and one pregnant woman said the class was helping her “be more conscious of my own emotional and physical state.”
The memory study, Alfonsi said, “… is proof that we need to be more careful about what experiences we expose babies to in the womb.” Like the experience of, say, murder?
Let's be clear, George Tiller killed unborn children at this late stage of development.
Unborn Babies Can Form Memories by 30 Weeks
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Babies are people too
Of COURSE they have a memory, they are born recognizing their mother's and even their father's voices, they were learning this in utero. I'm glad this study confirmed in a lab what most of us already knew. Except George Tiller. At least we hope he didn't realize what he was doing. To know how human the baby is and still kill it is inhuman.
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A famous conductor once came upon a cello concerto he thought was new to him, yet stragely he discovered that he knew it by heart. His mother, a cellist, had been practicing it decades ago, while pregnant with him.
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The sad part about this news is it wont change anything.
ABORTION KILLS
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