I have had it with proaborts still using the dishonest Guardian photos. So here we go: 1) This is NOT what a miscarriage or an abortion looks like. This tissue has been rinsed of all blood in a fine sieve and the EMBRYO IS EITHER MISSING OR HIDDEN. We'll come back to this!
2a) At no point in development is a human strictly microscopic. Here are screen shots of an embryologist's video of human eggs next to a dime. The videos were taken with only his phone. L: 10 human eggs R: 1 human egg
2c) Throughout the internet you can find scientific and fertility sources confirming the visibility of a human egg, which is roughly .1mm or the size of a period " . "
3) The fertilized human egg, or zygote, is larger than the unfertilized human egg, roughly .7mm, and again visible to the naked eye: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK55456….
4) Roughly 6-10 days after fertilization, or Week 4 of pregnancy, the embryo implants in the lining of the uterus. At this point most women still don't know they're pregnant, so very very few abortions happen at this stage.
5) By Week 5, a woman is just missing her first period, the embryo is growing rapidly and about the size of a sesame seed. Again, most abortions do NOT happen at this stage as most women are just finding out they're pregnant.
6) Now, about the MYA Network and the photos they provided for The Guardian and NYT articles! Here are photos of wks 4 & 5.
If they are wholly accurate, why is there so much less tissue in wk 5? Why has all the blood been rinsed out? Why don't they want to point out the embryo?
7) On their website, the MYA Network misleads women by showing them images of washed and sanitized tissue, and claiming the embryos are not visible. BUT if you dig further down on their page, you will find them getting a little closer to the truth:
8) So what do we really KNOW about embryos at this stage? Well, at wk 8 and 9 an embryo is about a 1/2" and 3/4" long respectively. Quite obviously visible to the naked eye.
9) So let's compare photos. Below is what the Guardian claims is a wk 7 pregnancy, alongside a photo of a wk 7 miscarried baby.
10) Perhaps this is why so many women who've experienced miscarriage (even pro-choice women) were angry at the Guardian for how they misrepresented pregnancy loss:
11) Let's compare!
- Guardian's 9 wk photo with embryo supposedly present but "not easily discernible"
- representation of 9 wk embryo roughly to scale at 1/2" HAD IT BEEN IN the photo
Where is the embryo? Is it missing or did they hide it? Why don't they want us to see it?
12) Let's compare again!
- Guardian's 9 wk photo again
- Lennart Nilsson's photo of an embryo at roughly the same stage, clearly visible within it's tissue
Shouldn't we be able to see an embryo of this size, shape, and color in the Guardian photo? Why can't we?
13) Let's compare again!
- Guardian's 9 wk photo again
- Another of Lennart Nilsson's photos of an embryo at roughly the same stage
14) So you really should be asking yourself, why are the MYA Network, the Guardian, NYT and so many others actively misleading you?
And what happens when a woman believes them but when aborting at 11 weeks expels a fully formed little baby?
15) Even if we give them the benefit of the doubt, assume they're trying to ease women's guilt, how does that help her in the long run? What happens when she suffers and later discovers (and she will discover) the truth about fetal development? Who will help her then? (18wks)
16a) At the very least, the pro "choice" movement should treat women with the respect and dignity they deserve and offer them INFORMED CHOICE.
Informed choice means treating them like adults, NOT children; telling them the truth, NOT sugar-coating to "protect" them. (10 wks)
16b) Informed choice means providing her with accurate information about her baby's size and development, as well as possible negative outcomes including physical risks and mental health risks including prolonged grief, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. (19 wks)
17) Well, that's all for now. It's been hours of putting this together and I gotta stop. I will add more if I think of anything!
Please share, bookmark, use ANY time you see someone using those crap Guardian pics.
Bring the light, my friends. Bring the LIGHT!
Dang it I forgot to add credits:
• Screen shots in 10 & 11 @secularprolife
• Miscarried babies 9 & 14, I forget! Baby Nelson I think was @LiveActionNews but not sure.
• Photos of embryos and fetuses Lennart Nilsson A Child is Born and Life mag
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I am increasingly convinced that many of the problems we face today are a result of divorcing ourselves from our own humanity.
When people say “I didn’t consent to a baby being in my body” or “abortion just ends a pregnancy” or "what I do to myself doesn't affect you" /1
they are ignoring the reality that we are biological beings.
More specifically, we are highly advanced mammals with sophisticated physical, social, and emotional needs that must be met in order for us to thrive. /2
As human beings, we come into existence without any say. Our physical attributes are predetermined. We breathe, circulate, digest, metabolize, excrete, all apart from our will. We grow, change, get sick, get well, reproduce, give birth, often whether we want to or not. /3
🧵 1/ No, pro-lifers don’t need the Bible to defend the rights of babies in the womb. Not all pro-lifers are Christian after all. But I am, and sometimes I just love to marvel at God’s word. So here are a few of my favorite pro-life verses.
2/ I’ll start with one of my absolute favorites:
…Rebekah became pregnant. The babies jostled each other within her and she said “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. The Lord said to her “Two nations are in your womb,
3/ and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
Gen 25:22-23
Not just two people. Two NATIONS. Love this so much.
If something is hidden from our eyes, does that make it less real?
Lennart Nilsson may have used a powerful camera to capture this photo of an embryo at approximately 6-8 wks post-fertilization but does that mean we should disregard what this image has to teach us? 1/
As my daughter said: Isn't it somehow more amazing that this little being, just over 1/2 inch long, is so obviously human, that he or she has hands, feet, eyes, and a heart?! That we can even see a developing spine: 2/
A fertilized egg is microscopic, but with the proper tools we can witness the fusing of the male and female nuclei.
Because our eyes cannot see something so small, does that mean it's less important? Or less human? 3/
One day a friend was discouraged because she sees so much brokenness and destruction in the world, but does not have the power to make others see it themselves.
This is the burden of those gifted in truth-telling: they are truth-seers first...
and even in the faithfulness of truth-telling, they cannot make others see.
I reminded her, then, of the gift of holy witness. God has called us to be His witnesses.
Unfortunately, when we hear this we often jump ahead to evangelism...
and the assumption that our role as witnesses is to convince others of the Truth.
But God never tells us to convince others of the Truth. In fact, scripture is clear that conviction and transformation are works of the Holy Spirit alone.