...particularly when it shows any fetus as being practically human. That's the current fear of some doctors concerning the latest 4-D ultrasounds used today. Consider the following comments from the TimesOnline article:
The emotive photographs, taken with new fourdimensional imaging technology, have created a misleading impression that foetuses become viable and potentially self-aware at a much earlier stage than is actually the case, according to experts on foetal development.
Or:
“But there was also a temptation to associate these movements — sucking a thumb, gasping as if talking — with adult movements, to think it is sucking its thumb because it is happy. It’s that feeling which I think is extraordinarily dangerous.”
Though the foetus clearly looks human by 12 weeks, proper sensory development takes place much later, he said. There was a risk that the pictures would make people assume that foetuses have more advanced brains than is the case.
Gee, I've never considered sucking a thumb as an adult movement. But one thing I do know, these 4D ultrasound shots sure leave me speechless as I peer into God's marvelous creation of a human. If I could be fined $5000 for destroying an eagle's potential life (read: egg), why not for one of these "potential life's" as well?
-Colonel Steve
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