Abortion: Human Gestation - Six-Week-Old Embryo

HUMAN GESTATION : SIX-WEEK-OLD EMBRYO

Last Updated : July 23, 2006

Photographic evidence which proves that as early as six
weeks, aborted embryos / fetuses are NOT just unrecognizable
clumps of tissue as cold-hearted pro-abortionists and their
butchers claim, but rather, they are real, live human beings!

  A baby floats head-down in the
  tear-drop shaped amniotic sac,
  or bag of waters, which
  protects the rapidly
  developing embryo.

  The picture shows a little boy
  removed from the fallopian
  tube of his mother's womb at
  six weeks after conception.
  The importance of the
  developing brain is reflected
  in the size of the baby's head
  in proportion to the rest of
  the body. Observe the budding
  arms, the dark area in the
  centre which is the liver and
  the umbilical cord threading
  its way through the neck of
  the 'tear-drop' to the chorion
  (afterbirth) in the hand at
  the top.

Conception or fertilisation - the beginning of human
development - usually occurs in the fine tube which leads
from the womb's cavity to the ovary. The embryo or
"conceptus" usually travels down the tube and implants in
the womb. This child never completed the journey but lodged
in the tube (the most common site of ectopic - literally
"out of place" - pregnancy).

Doctors had to remove the tube containing the baby, because
the growing child was about to rupture the tube, with fatal
consequences for himself and potentially for the mother
also. There is no moral objection to this treatment, which
does not involve deliberately killing the embryo but is done
to avert the threat to the mother's life. The legality of
these operations in the UK does not depend on the 1967
Abortion Act, and they are not recorded as abortions under
the Act. Of 170,000-plus abortions performed annually under
the Act, almost none are now recorded as "emergency" life
saving procedures.

Source : Information taken from the SPUC.org.uk web site

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