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Online Medical Notes That Refer to the Unborn BABY

2010-10-04T21:45:00.000-07:00

I came across @JessicaSideways' tweet:

Is she correct?

Let's see if I can find medical school class notes & material online that use the word BABY or UNBORN BABY [s. or pl.]:

Human Reproduction and Development

"Week 9 - Week 40: (Fetus):

After 12 weeks or so, the baby's development is largely "finished" - except brain and lung development"

"A great website: Teratogens: Protecting your Unborn Baby

The early processes of development all need to occur at a precise time and place - that is why poor maternal nutrition, fever, drugs, alcohol, (particularly in the 1st trimester) all have potentially serious effects of the developing baby."

http://www.biology.iupui.edu/biocourses/n100/2k4ch39repronotes.html

Prenatal Development and Its Influence on Children's Development

"Examine prenatal attachment from the historical perspective to the current understanding of the unborn baby’s prenatal life"

"Identify a relationship-based model of prenatal education and specific interventions to support parents’ awareness of the emotional needs of their unborn baby from pregnancy into the first three months of life"

"I have come to have a fuller understanding of prenatal development and the relationship between the parents and their unborn baby. "

http://www.cehd.umn.edu/ceed/profdev/onlinecourses/prenatal.htm

Genes . . . The Nature of Human Development

"...alphafetoprotein (AFP), a substance produced by the baby and passed into the mother’s blood and the amniotic fluid."

The baby can be transfused in utero or immediately at birth."

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1982/7/82.07.04.x.html

Before the Beginning

"A formidable force is changing the way prenatal diseases and birth defects are viewed by pioneering ways to help babies before they are born."

"One of the few perinatologists in the country to offer surgical interventions for a baby in utero..."

http://www.usc.edu/hsc/info/pr/hmm/07winter/begin.html

Fetal Development [PowerPoint]

"38 weeks: the baby may be more than 20 inches;

the baby is full term and ready to be born."

http://cte.rockhurst.edu/s/945/images/editor_documents/content/John%20F.%20Morris,%20Ph.D.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Associate%20Professor%20of%20Philoso/ME17-Fetal%20Development.pdf

CDE 232 - Introduction to Human Development

"Stopping smoking can help the baby, even in the third trimester."

http://www.public.asu.edu/~wcree/cde232/aug__30_lecture_notes.htm

Biological Effects of Radiation

"There are many chemical agents (such as thalidomide) and many biological agents (such as the viruses which cause German measles) that can also produce malformations while the baby is still in the embryonic or fetal stage of development."

http://www.bluefieldstate.edu/Schools/nursradt/Fall2009/RADT225/BiologicalEffectsofRadiation.pdf

Prenatal Effects of Radiation

"...it is important that you have a basic understanding of potential biological effects to an unborn baby associated with prenatal radiation exposure."

"Unborn babies are less sensitive to radiation during some stages of pregnancy than others. Unborn babies are particularly sensitive to radiation during their early development, between weeks 2 and 15 of pregnancy. However, since the baby is shielded by the mother's abdomen, the radiation dose to the unborn baby is lower than the dose to the mother for most radiation exposure events."

"Unborn babies are especially sensitive to the cancer-causing effects of radiation. However, the increased risks depend on the amount of radiation to which the baby was exposed and the amount of time that it was exposed."

http://ehs.umc.edu/documents/RadiationExposureandPregnancy.pdf

Ultrasonography

This is a non-invasive procedure that is harmless to both the fetus and the mother. High frequency sound waves are utilized to produce visible images from the pattern of the echos made by different tissues and organs, including the baby in the amniotic cavity.

http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/PRENATAL/PRENATAL.html

Parvovirus B19 and pregnancy?

"Usually there is no serious complication for a pregnant woman or her baby following exposure...

Likewise, her unborn baby usually does not have any problems attributable to parvovirus B19 infection.

Sometimes, however, parvovirus B19 infection will cause the unborn baby to have severe anemia and the woman will have a miscarriage.

Other physicians may increase the frequency of doctor visits and perform blood tests and ultra-sound examinations to monitor the health of the unborn baby."

http://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/Defect/parvovirus.htm

Some Medical/Obstetrics Books That Refer to the Unborn BABY

2010-09-12T01:23:00.000-07:00

Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies

by Steven G. Gabbe MD, Joe Leigh Simpson MD, Jennifer R. Niebyl MD, Henry Galan MD

"It is helpful to ask the woman to mark on a calendar the first time she feels the baby move and to report this date." (page 121)

"Mercury in high levels may harm the unborn baby or young child's developing nervous system." (page 206)

"...of a three-point restraint across the maternal pelvis, provide the greatest protection to the mother and unborn child." (page 622)

"...management of the syphilis-infected gravida and her unborn child." (page 1194)

Case Files Obstetrics and Gynecology, Third Edition (LANGE Case Files)

by Eugene Toy, Benton Baker III

"...both the mother and baby have an excellent prognosis if a cesarean delivery is performed." (page 132)

"...usually necessitating delivery of the baby regardless of gestational age." (page 217)

"...the likelihood that their unborn baby will have sickle cell disease?" (page 260)

Hacker & Moore's Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology

by Neville F. Hacker MD, Joseph C. Gambone DO

"Caring for a pregnant woman creates a unique maternal-fetal relationship because the management of the mother inevitably affects her baby." (page 8)

"When the test is positive, the baby should usually be delivered." (page 90)

"MECHANISM OF LABOR. Six movements of the baby enable it to adapt to the maternal pelvis: descent, flexion, internal rotation, extension, external rotation, and expulsion." (page 101)

Ultrasonography in Obstetrics and Gynecology

by Peter W. Callen MD

"...and seek support systems before the baby arrives." (page 46)

"...to significantly improve the health outcomes of pregnant women and their babies." (page 711)

"...often showing baby faces in utero." (page 826)

"...survival of the pregnancy, and sex of the baby." (page 1006)

Clinical Sonography: A Practical Guide

by Roger C. Sanders, Tom C. Winter

"Quickening. The time when the mother first feels the baby move-about 16 to 18 weeks." (page 92)

"It can be difficult for the clinician to tell which part of the baby is going to be delivered first. Most babies are delivered head first (cephalic or vertex presentation)." (page 93)

"Studies have shown that parents who see their baby on ultrasound undergo a sort of prenatal bonding experience..." (page 98)

"A split screen with a good abdominal circumference from each baby shows comparable growth at a glance and can document the position of both fetuses. How is baby B relative to baby A? Or C?" (page 132)

"Noise-emitting device placed on maternal abdomen to buzz or wake up baby." (page 177)

"If the baby appears to be in a resting state, there are several things the observer can do to enhance fetal activity." (page 178)

"Often the mother can tell you which positions the baby does not 'like.'" (page 179)

Ob/Gyn Sonography: An Illustrated Review

by Marie DeLange, MD Glenn A. Rouse

"If a baby is in breech position, c-section is often performed." (page 109)

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

by Juri W. Wladimiroff, Sturla Eik-Nes

"If a mother has a temperature, her unborn child is already at risk of maldevelopment as a result of the elevated temperature." (page 31)

"Parents might even consider this their baby's first physical examination." (page 79)

Fetal Echocardiography: A Practical Guide
by Lindsey D. Allan, Andrew C. Cook, Ian C. Huggon

"...and then up towards the head end of the baby, to the inlet of the thorax." (page 7)

"It is only by understanding the relationship of the image slice to the whole baby that the operator can know if he or she is viewing a normally positioned heart..." (page 9)

Textbook of Fetal Abnormalities

by Peter Twining, Josephine M. Mchugo, David W. Pilling

"...in order to allow informed choices to be made by the parents of the unborn child." (page 273)

"The surface-rendered image gives parents the opportunity to see a 'photograph' of their unborn child. Seeing a 3D picture of the fetal face... is an unforgettable experience for parents." (page 489)

Manual of Obstetrics (Spiral Manual Series)
by Arthur T. Evans

"A feeling that the baby is 'balling up' that lasts more than 30 seconds..." (page 12)

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2010-06-14T11:05:00.000-07:00

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Dangerous Effects of the Pill

2010-06-12T11:54:00.000-07:00

How the Pill Kills Babies, Women, and the Environment

2010-06-12T10:48:00.000-07:00

The Pill's Harmful Effects on the Environment

2010-06-12T10:45:00.000-07:00

Birth Control and the Big Lie

2010-06-12T10:30:00.000-07:00

Ten Simple Tips for Better Transcripts

2010-06-08T09:06:00.000-07:00

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Happy Mother's Day

2010-05-08T18:13:00.000-07:00

I thank God for my mother who chose to give me life! :D

Latest Prolife Tweets

2010-05-06T02:28:00.000-07:00

" #Prochoice" Rhetoric & Lies has brought more harm to women & has killed over 50 million innocent human beings. #abortion #sexed

" #Prochoice" "Safe" Abortion rhetoric & lies has killed over 200 women since Roe. Next 1 could be U. Stop lying 2 women now!

Some #prochoice rs still believe/promote the "Back Alley" Myth. I say ditch the coathanger now! http://ajph.aphapublications.org/

#Abortion #Fact Thousands of women were NOT dying of illegal "back alley" abortions. #prochoice #prolife #pregnancy #sexed

#Abortion #Fact American women have abortions in part because IT IS LEGAL hence # of abortions skyrocketed. #prochoice #prolife #pregnancy

#Abortion #Fact 1000s of women will NOT die if abortion becomes illegal. Actually, millions of lives will be saved. #Prochoice = #Ignorance

" #Prochoice" has destroyed billions of lives worldwide. " #Prochoice" has saved ZERO women's lives. Abortion saves NONE. Choose LIFE.

Advances in medicine--availability of emergency care & drugs like penicillin--has saved women's lives, not abortion. CHOOSE LIFE. #prochoice

#Prochoice #LIE: A fetus is not a baby/child. || #Prolife #FACT: Medical experts/books say & prove otherwise. Science says FETUS=BABY=CHILD.

#Prochoice #LIE: Abortion is not murder. | #Prolife #FACT: Abortion is the brutal/inhumane murder of innocent human babies/children.

#Prochoice #LIE: Abortion is not murder since it is legal. | #Prolife #FACT: To murder is "to kill brutally or inhumanly." HeresTheBlood.com

#Prochoice #LIE 1000s of women will die if abortion becomes illegal like b4 Roe. || #Prolife #FACT PreRoe figures were exaggerated by NARAL!

#Prochoice #LIE 1000s of women will die.. | #Prolife #FACT >90% of abortions b4 1973 were performed by LICENSED PHYSICIANS! (Mary Calderone)

#Abortion #FACT: Healthy women R dying from LEGAL abortions..disguised as hemorrhaging, peritonitis, or other natural causes. :(( #prochoice

Previous quote from Abortion Myth Perpetuated http://www.nysun.com/new-york/abortion-myth-perpetuated/60958/ #prolife #prochoice

Leave it to libtards to emphasize that pregnancy is "worse than abortion". #Prochoice #LIE: Legal abortion is safe. Pregnancy isn't.

#Prochoice #LIE All #prolife abortion pics & vids R doctored. || Take a good look. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/behind-19/
NOTE: Most are not doctored. There are plenty online if one will honestly search for the truth.

#Prochoice #LIE: #Prolife rs view women as "incubators" w/o rights/choices. | #FACT Most women R prolife & vice versa. I'm a prolife woman.

There was a time when hurting children was the worst thing any1 could possibly do, then came along " #prochoice feminists". #Abortion=MURDER

Such warped " #prochoice" thinking, pregnancy & adoption R bad, while abortion is the ultimate solution to women's problems! O_o

Such warped " #prochoice" thinking, an ultrasound is an "invasive procedure" while an abortion is completely safe and comfortable! o_O

TWEET FOR LIFE!

My Son Chose Life

2009-12-11T06:55:00.000-08:00

Just found this on YouTube. What a beautiful child! Thank God this boy (and his mom) chose life!

This is info given by his mommy:

I want to start by saying that I strongly believed in pro-choice before the birth of my son. Not until I held him for the first time, was it even possible for me to understand what pro-choice really meant.

My son deserved to live, from the very moment of conception, and the reason why I'm so passionate about the subject is, not only did several people close to me encourage abortion, but it was also a very real consideration for myself.

I am so thankful I went with my heart, and I thank you for taking the time to watch.

If you're considering abortion, please choose life. PLEASE CALL 800-395-HELP for free, confidential counseling services. http://www.pregnancycenters.org

After Abortion: Linda's Letter

2009-12-11T06:49:00.000-08:00

Dear friend,

I was seventeen when I had my first abortion. I was a perfect candidate: too young, hadn't finished high school yet, no money, no skills, father of the baby didn't want to marry me, and adoption was too painful to think about.

Later in Nursing School, when I saw pictures of foetal development, I was shocked. That blob of tissue had feet, hands and a heartbeat.

I had become very interested in women's health care and reproductive rights, fighting for women's right to abortion, but what I was saying conflicted with what I was feeling.

Some of the things were:

If abortion is so right, why am I feeling guilty and seeking help from psychiatrists and feminist therapists?
If abortion is so right, why am I so hostile towards the father of the baby... an anger that turned into a hatred for all men?
If abortion is so right, why am I feeling exploited and so abused?
If abortion is so right, why am I needing increased amounts of alcohol and drugs to numb the pain?
If abortion is so right, why am I feeling so guilty around infertile couples who agonise over the wait for a baby by adoption?
If abortion is so right, why am I so depressed that I think of suicide as a way out?
If abortion isn't killing, then why, when I found a counsellor who allowed me to grieve therapeutically, did I symbolically need to take the torn, broken pieces of my baby's body from the garbage can in New York, sew him back together, name him and hold and rock and cry for what I did to him?
If abortion isn't the death of a baby, why am I grieving?

In Weba (Women Exploited by Abortion) I finally found women who didn't tell me I had "made the best decision at the time." They understood my struggle with denial and allowed me to express my feelings by saying, "I can't believe I killed my babies."

For women who say that they don't regret killing their babies, I say, "Wait." It took me five years to break through the stage of denial.

If there is grief, there was death.

If there was death, there was life.

Linda

From: http://www.truthtv.org/abortion/women/womens-letters/linda/

The ABCs of Comprehensive Sex Education

2009-10-30T11:17:00.000-07:00

The Abortion / Birth Control industry is the one lobbying for Comprehensive sex education in schools across the United States. Please watch this (MUST SEE):

Let me say that again,

The Abortion / Birth Control industry is the one lobbying for Comprehensive sex education in schools across the United States.

Just like their other campaigns, birth control /abortion advocates use compelling words & phrases. In the case of sex education, the key word is SCIENTIFIC. Here are some Quick Scientific Facts about the Teenage Brain from a recent study:

The brain is still developing during the teen years ...the teen brain is not a finished product, but is a work in progress.
the greatest changes to the parts of the brain that are responsible for functions such as
self-control, judgment, emotions, and organization occur between puberty and adulthood
So you see a lot of this in your teens, right? Poor decision-making, recklessness, and emotional outbursts
Psychologically, teens are big children.

Just Google "teen brain" to find out more information from government, school & media web sites, example, here's one from Time Magazine.

So, how well do you think your reckless teen will handle the barrage of sex information (where abstinence is not emphasized, mentioned for 1 day & sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex the remaining days)? How would YOU have handled it when you were a teen? Ahhhh...

One more interesting fact, majority of teens are prolife according to a Gallup survey so this is a way for the multimillion abortion / birth control industry to expand to an even bigger market. Interested to know how much "nonprofit" abortion/birth control giant Planned Parenthood is already making?

It is also worth nothing that more than 50% of abortions are due to birth control failure. Yes, you read that right. In the US, according to pro-abortion Alan Guttmacher Institute,

so their insistence that "comprehensive sex education and access to contraception will lead to fewer abortions" is FALSE.

BOTTOM LINE: Please protect your teenager from the abortion / birth control industry. Protect their future.

Suggested Reading:
Study Links Depression and Suicide Rates to Teen Sex
Teen Sex Linked To Regret and Abortions in Later Adult Life
Contraception and Sex Education: A Trojan Horse for Abortion
The Pitfalls of Sex Education
Behavior: A Snapshot of Teen Sex
CDC: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance - United States, 2007 (PDF)

#74: Interview: Lila Rose, Live Action (ProlifePodcast.Net)

2009-10-18T08:53:00.000-07:00

Summary and Transcript of Podcast found here:
http://blog.prolifepodcast.net/2009/10/02/74-interview-lila-rose-live-action.aspx

Lila Rose, President of Live Action takes on the Life Report Questionnaire.
1) [0:02:41] What did you get in trouble for as a child?
a) Reading books at the dinner table
b) Fighting matches with my younger siblings and older brothers
2) [0:03:50] What is your favorite movie, and why?
Prince of Egypt
3) [0:04:31] What has been the pro-life movement’s greatest victory (or victories) so far?
Public opinion of abortion based on poll results. More are prolife due to the (a) boldness of prolife activists, (b) boldness of using media, (3) opposition (pro-abortion president)
4) [0:06:18] What has been the pro-life movement’s greatest failing or weakness?
Lack of hope, courage
5) [0:10:01] Graphic Pictures: Should we use them, and if so, how, when, and where?
Graphics pictures are absolutely necessary in winning the war against abortion and should be used whenever we are brave enough to use them at school, freeways, church, political forum, media
6) [0:13:18] Stem Cell Research & Human Cloning: What should pro-lifers be doing about this, and why?
a) Educate people. Focus on “human life begins at conception”; show images of the unborn child; philosophical and scientific arguments
b) Never vote for or support politicians who are not prolife
c) Launch school campaign (embryo’s point of view)
7) [0:18:02] Assisted Suicide & Euthanasia: What should pro-lifers be doing about this, and why?
a) Watch for the legislation, e.g., health care bill
b) Message needs to be told: “no matter the age, no matter the size, no matter the capabilities, no matter any of these qualifications that we might put on human life, human life has intrinsic value and needs to be respected and there cannot be any compromises on that”
8) [0:19:45] How should pro-lifers interact with those who are pro-abortion-choice?
a) By talking and having the searching conversation with them
b) We need to be gracious and we need to never judge these people and where they’re coming from
c) Ask them a lot of questions
i) Why are you pro-choice?
ii) When do you think life begins?
iii) When do you think and why do you think abortion might be justified?
9) [0:24:59] What single thing should pro-lifers be doing that most are NOT doing right now?
a) Be more confident and courageous.
b) Show the image of abortion. Don’t let the victim be hidden.

[Beginning of Transcript 0:00:20 ]

JOSH: Anyway, we are here with Lila Rose. We’re going to do another prolife “celebrity” interview but Lila prefers prolife “activist” interviews and so we’ll say prolife activist. How are you doing, Lila?

LILA: Good, how are you, Josh?

JOSH: Oh, I’m doing good. You’re doing very many cool speeches around here lately. Why don’t you go ahead and tell us about you and Live Action in case any prolifers have been living in a cave for the last year. Who are you and what do you do before we get into the questionnaire?

LILA: Of course. Okay, first of all, I’m a 21-year-old college student at UCLA. This is my senior year I’m coming into. I’m a history major. I’m also one of 8 children. We are all homeschooled. I’m in between 5 boys so I grew up pretty tough I’d say.

JOSH: So where are you in the 8?

LILA: I’m the third oldest so 2 older brothers, 3 younger brothers and then my mom had 2 little girls.

JOSH: That’s fantastic.

LILA: It is. It was quite a wonderful childhood. So there’s that and I started up a group called Live Action which we’re now a non-profit prolife new media organization that has a national and even international outreach program at about age 15 and now we do all kinds of work to expose abortion, both in the abortion industry and lobby and to the public using new media and investigative journalism.

JOSH: I have called Lila the... this is like the To Catch a Predator of the prolife movement. You’re the Chris Hansen that goes in and “What are you doing here?” You’re going in with the hidden cameras and you have the best gotcha moments the prolife side has ever had I would say so.

LILA: Well, there’s plenty to be had because there’s so much illicit activity happening in the abortion industry so there’s much more to come.

JOSH: I can’t wait to see. I want to hear more about that but maybe we’ll do that in the second episode. So for those of you that are new to the show, when we do interview shows, we make everyone go through the prolife gauntlet if you will, the 9 questions so we want everybody to ask and the idea is as we get more and more prolifers that have just amazing perspectives and histories to answer these questions, you start seeing interesting patterns. You see some people answering the same question with the same answers and then you get kind of some variety so this is where we get kind of a well-rounded kind of view of things so we’re going to go ahead and start with Question 1. [0:02:41] Lila, what did you get in trouble for as a child?

LILA: That is a good question. Probably two major things that I can think of, the first of which, I would bring books cause I was very much a reader when I was a little girl and I would bring books to the dinner table because I would be so enthralled by whatever I was reading and I would just ignore the family and I’d just be reading at the dinner table which my dad hated so he would take my books and he’d put them on top of the refrigerator because I was so short I couldn’t reach them until after the meal was finished so that was one thing that I was notorious for.
The other thing is I would get in fighting matches with my brothers and I’d beat them of course every single time. Well, not always but always fighting with younger siblings or my older brothers was part of the things I got in trouble for too but there’s always a good reason for the fight let me say.

JOSH: I bet. Well, you know, older brothers, we can’t help it so.

LILA: Exactly, I had to stand up to them.

JOSH: Exactly, and maybe that influenced how you are now with Planned Parenthood and stuff like that.

LILA: The Big Brother.

JOSH: Exactly, exactly.

LILA: I would never compare my brothers to Planned Parenthood. Oh my goodness.

JOSH: Thank you. [0:03:50] What is your favorite movie and why?

LILA: Oh, favorite movie. Okay, I have a few. I actually don’t watch that many movies but I try to watch only the good ones and there are some great ones. One movie I always loved as a little girl, I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite but it’s one of them was the Prince of Egypt? It’s actually not even a live action film, it’s a… Get that live action film?

JOSH: Excellent music though, the best music.

LILA: Exactly, I’ve just loved… I’ve always loved the music. When I first watched it as a little girl, it sent chills up my spine, I was like, “This is lovely” and it still speaks to me so I like that. I like that film among others.

JOSH: Prince of Egypt, that’s the first time we’ve gotten that answer on the show so that’s good. [0:04:31] What has been the prolife movement’s greatest victory or victories so far do you think?

LILA: I think that at the end of the day, our victories are best measured by the public opinion of abortion because at the end of the day, that’s really what we’re going for is changing hearts and minds and the fact that prolifers, according to the latest poll, as far as someone who would consider themselves prolife is in the majority in our nation, that is an enormous victory. We still have a very long way to go and we have a lot of fighting left to do but it’s something that should only encourage us and inspire us to even more action.

JOSH: [0:05:07] What do you think led to those polls?

LILA: I think overall a few things, boldness on the part of prolife activists who have been working for years upon years even before I was born but especially the boldness of willing to use media in a very, very cutting edge way whether it’s graphic images of abortion or its campaigns to educate exactly about the violence of abortion. All the films and media that’s coming out, movies and shorts that have to do with the violence of abortion and stories, compelling stories of women who choose life and then also having opposition I think helps us to reach more people.
Having the Obama administration to be so rabidly pro-abortion and having the partial birth abortion fight out in public, dragging that out in public forums. These sorts of things convince people to come to the prolife side because really, Josh, when people hear the message, it’s just about getting the true message to them and will convert hearts and minds.

JOSH: So prolifers should be making videos and using new media and stuff, what’s this? Facebook?

LILA: Podcasts, I heard those might be really good in reaching people.

JOSH: Some people consider this a tougher question. [0:06:18] What do you think has been the prolife movement’s greatest failing or weakness?

LILA: I think, I mean I can’t speak authoritatively on what might be the greatest because I’ve only been around a short time in the movement but I can say what I’ve seen personally as the greatest failing is the lack of hope and lack of courage because I believe with my whole heart that if we band together and we continue to work with full faith and hope, we will see a day in America without abortion but I have met activists who God bless them have been working so long and have been laboring so hard that they’ve lost the hope and they see this more as, “Okay, maybe it’s a relay race. Maybe we’re never going to get through. We just have to pass the torch on to the next generation and they’ll have to fight and we’ll never really make it” but we conquered slavery in America. We conquered the civil rights battle in America. We conquered child labor in America. I mean we still have to fight these things to an extent but they’re made illegal. The laws stand against them so we can conquer abortion and we must believe that and act like that’s what we need from our country if our country’s going to survive.

JOSH: And those things took a long time to make it happen. I mean we talk about, “Oh my gosh! It’s been 30 years” and those things took much longer sometimes to make happen.

LILA: Right, but by the power of God who works miracles through people with faith, it can take… It could be overnight. Really God can do anything. Anything is possible through God and through the people that believe in Him so I don’t know how long it will take but I don’t think it necessarily needs to take 100 years.

JOSH: Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely. You’re the first person that has said “lack of hope” in response to that question. You made me think, I think maybe I told this story in a podcast before but there’s an older gentleman that has been involved in our Right to Life group for I don’t know how many decades but he comes in here sometimes and kind of hangs out and the day after the election, he came in and he just kind of plopped down in this chair and just kind of put his head in his hands, he just looked like he’d lost all hope. It’s just like, “I’m going to die before this thing ends.” And I told him, “Don’t lose hope. It just means we need to get better at what we do.”

LILA: Exactly.

JOSH: And so yeah, I definitely agree with you on that.

LILA: And it’s incredible how the crimes of history and what seems like the times we might despair in history, and as a history student, I’ve been able to study this, actually turn into the great night or the dark night before the brilliant dawn and I believe strongly that the worst things get, the better things will be and we have to believe in that.

JOSH: [0:08:48] Give me a couple of historical examples of that. That’s interesting to me. Tell me a little bit about that.

LILA: Well, I mean, the historical examples I can talk about my own life, things that have happened in my own life I think each person has a testimony of the dark night before the dawn but our nation, I mean the history of our nation, you talk about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and you talk about the way that right before I mean we won the civil war, there were so little hope that our country would ever be united again and we’d ever be able to deal with all the blood that had been shed again and yet we rose out of that even more united and entered into an even more united period of our history where there still are scars but we were closer than before. I mean, that of course is a wonderful example right there and I mean even today, yes, you could say that our president and he is extremely pro-abortion and I completely disapprove of him but people said that there would never be an African American president. There would never be a Black president because the racism was so great in our country, well, look at that I mean there are so many examples in our nation’s history where before the great darkness, there came a brilliant dawn and it will be so with abortion.

JOSH: You brought up graphic pictures before so let me ask you about graphic pictures, [0:10:01] should we use them and if so, how, when, and where?

LILA: Graphic pictures are absolutely necessary in winning the war against abortion because they do what nothing else can do. They lay out the basic fact that abortion is a violent act that kills an innocent, tiny human being, nothing else, not even the most elaborate words can prove it as powerfully as a picture. They say a picture speaks a thousand words. It’s true. So I think that the images are very necessary.

Also, in the history of social reform, images have driven the debate. They’ve actually taken over the debate and even, I mentioned child labor earlier and child labor, Louis Hine, the photographer, would take pictures of children with missing fingers and children who are so tiny and dying because their lungs were never able to develop as they were working in the mills whatever it may be and he would go and show these photos and people were getting angry at him, “Why are you showing these horrible photos?” He said, “I’m showing these photos of child labor because I want us to be so sick of them that we do away with the institution of child labor altogether.”

In the history of social reform with the civil rights movement, images drove the debate, images of Black men being attacked by dogs and Black women being attacked by dogs and police with fire hoses. These sorts of things are necessary. Do they cause controversy? Do they make people angry? Do they make some people “turned off”? Of course! They’re violent images but they’re necessary to win so when? Where? I would say as often as we’re brave enough to use them. Where? To high school, college, and students up, people older than that. On our freeways, they should be used. At our churches, they should be used if people refuse to repent of the sin of abortion and pastors refuse to take a stand against abortion from the pulpit. I think they should be used definitely in the political forum. They should be used in the media. Basically, as Louis Hines, the photographer of child labor photos said, “We need to use them until we’re so sick of seeing the violence of abortion that we want to do away with the institution altogether.”

JOSH: We’ll be back with Lila Rose after the break.

[Break 0:12:13 - 0:13:08]

JOSH: All right, we are back. I don’t really know another way to say that. It is getting so old after 70 episodes of saying we are back, that just feels so trite. [0:13:18] Anyway, stem cell research and human cloning, what should prolifers be doing about this and why?

LILA: Well, anytime that a human being’s life is in danger, we should be concerned so with human cloning and stem cell research, when you’re talking about taking a tiny human being, en embryo or the right after human life has been conceived, you’re talking about murder. You’re talking about a violence against the human person, an affront on basic human life so it’s wrong and we need to fight it just as much as we would fight the abortion of a 7-month-old baby. We have to look at human life holistically and not say that one baby is more valuable than another because it’s a little bigger and more developed just like we don’t say that you, Josh, cause you’re a tall adult man, you’re more valuable than a toddler whose head is almost as big as his little body. We don’t judge people and we don’t value people based on their size or their development or where they live, their environment so it is with stem cell research and human cloning. We need to look at the babies that are being killed through those methods just as eagerly to save their lives as we are to save the children who are being aborted surgically and medically.

JOSH: [0:14:36] And then what should we do?

LILA: “And then what should we do” meaning, how…?

JOSH: In response, as far as activism goes, we call them activists, it’s all about activism, I don’t necessarily even have the answer to this but I get asked, I was telling John this morning, I did like a two-hour stem cell seminar in Atlanta recently and someone asked afterwards, “Well, what do you want us to do besides listen to you talk?”

LILA: Right.

JOSH: And my response is just kind of well, “Now that you’re educated, be watching the legislation and cause that’s one of the main ways [..] to be involved but are there other ways, maybe even brainstorming campus activism that there’s some campuses that do embryonic stem cell research, what can people that have become educated about stem cell research then what can they do besides just knowing about it?

LILA: Well, I think there are a few things. First of all, in understanding and wholly reaching out to people to educate them about how human value does not start at a certain time but it starts at the beginning of the human life, at conception, that should be definitely as we educate, we should focus on that, giving as we show images of the unborn child developing and all of that, we should also focus on talking philosophically, scientifically about how life begins at conception so that people can apply those arguments to human cloning and embryonic stem cell research and understand that these things are wrong just as much as abortion.

Along with that, and again, this is all educational work that needs to be done and along with that, people need to understand that when they vote for a politician that in any way would increase money or increase the liberties of taking human life, whether it’s in a Petri dish or whether they’re cloning it or whatever it may be, they need to stand strong and never vote for those politicians and never support them and part of that is being willing to do the research to find out track records on politicians and on proposed legislation and part of that also is having that commitment, be strong enough where they see life as the number one issue, life is the most basic right that we have, therefore, when we go to the voting booth or when we consider legislation or consider propositions that needs to be our fundamental guideline that we use when making those decisions.

JOSH: [0:16:47] Can you think of any kind of campus activism for example here at Fresno State, they’re doing embryonic stem cell research, we haven’t done anything cause I haven’t really known what to do. Can you think as someone who has done a lot of work on campuses and I’m asking this to other people that kind of specialize in that field, is there something that like the prolife students could or should be thinking about doing in response to that besides talking to people about it?

LILA: Well, of course, I mean you could make a campaign about, “Is it right to take my life for science?” or “Don’t I have a choice that I might give my life for science someday instead of it being taken?” and you can just talk about it from the individual’s point of view that would be killed for supposed science although as you probably talked about already on this podcast, what results have we seen from this science? From this research? Hardly anything. But that’s beside the point because even if there were results, it’s wrong because the end does not justify the means here. So I think that just an educational campaign talking about it from basically from the point of view of that child that maybe we don’t recognize as a child because physically it doesn’t look like, oh, a two-year-old kid. When we’re doing it from that individual’s point of view and doing a campaign, that might help people think and better come closer to the prolife point of view on this.

JOSH: [0:18:02] Okay, assisted suicide and euthanasia, what should prolifers be doing about that and why?

LILA: Assisted suicide and euthanasia are another two hugely important right to life issues because you’re dealing with not necessarily the embryo or the fetus but you’re dealing with the human being at a much later stage of life so I think that the threats and the number of people being killed by assisted suicide and euthanasia thankfully are very small right now. Not to say that they do not need our concern and our work but I’m just saying that my focus as an activist has been on the preborn child because more than any other life age of human being, they are being threatened and killed. However, we must be very vigilant as we watch for the legislation and the moves of politicians especially in today’s administration with the health care bill, et cetera which views the elderly somehow as less important and their health needs as less important as the younger person or the person that could work harder or be stronger. That way of thinking is not American and it’s not just either and it’s not the way that our nation should ever think or our culture. So I think that again it’s part of the prolife issue that’s very important. Again, what it comes down to ultimately is educating that no matter the age, no matter the size, no matter the capabilities, no matter any of these qualifications that we might put on human life, human life has intrinsic value and needs to be respected and there cannot be any compromises on that so that’s ultimately, the public message, the public educational message that needs to be told.

JOSH: We finally get to my favorite questions. This is something that we probably talk about more than anything else on this podcast, talking about dialogue, [0:19:45] how should prolifers interact with those who are pro-abortion-choice?

LILA: Pro-abortion-choice? Is that a new one, Josh?

JOSH: That… I keep getting that. No one. I can’t believe no one has heard this. This is like a lot of the top-level pro-choice people and then also pro-lifers.

LILA: Let me tell you something. I have been in dozens of Planned Parenthood clinics across the country under cover and I’ve trained teams to do the same work, they are not pro-abortion-choice, they are pro-abortion in these clinics. That is the number one option they offer women, that’s the way that their counseling is manipulative in order to direct women to that choice. It’s not a choice between two things, it’s abortion. So there might be a few people out there who are pro-abortion-choice but when we’re talking about those in the industry and lobby, it’s pro-abortion.

JOSH: Yeah, and I’m not talking about those in the industry. I’m talking about those people that are not going undercover in a Planned Parenthood with a hidden camera.

LILA: Okay.

JOSH: Or those of us that just talk…

LILA: Don’t get me fired up.

JOSH: I… obviously! Well, for those of us just talking with friends…

LILA: Oh, friends, okay.

JOSH: …those that are in our sphere of influence, those that are… or whoever. Maybe we’re doing a GAP or a justice for all project on campus and we’re talking to people that are more in the middle, have not really thought about it.

LILA: I see what you’re saying.

JOSH: Maybe in my mind, they don’t like abortion but at this point, they feel that at least a choice ought to be available.

LILA: Right.

JOSH: How should we interact with those types of people?

LILA: I hear what you’re saying. I have friends, very close friends, who consider themselves “pro-choice” and they’re very good and loving people and I think there’s a disconnect here and what I’ve learned and I’ve actually seen some of these friends become pro-life just by talking and having the searching conversation with them. Because at the end of the day, when you ask questions and a lot of these people that call themselves pro-choice, they just haven’t heard the pro-life message. They haven’t seen the photos of what abortion actually is and does to a human being and they just don’t have the information that maybe we have and we’ve been given whether it’s through our childhood or some other person we met when we were younger whatever it is. They just haven’t had the opportunity to better understand so I think we need to be gracious and we need to never judge these people and where they’re coming from because we don’t know what kind of education they had or did not have, what experiences they had or did not have. So when talking with our friends who may be pro-choice, I think we need to ask them a lot of questions and ask them, “Why are you pro-choice? When do you think life begins? When do you think and why do you think abortion might be justified?” And what you’ll find in asking these questions and you go on a journey of thought with this person, your friend, is often you will both meet at the pro-life answer which is that no matter what, life is valuable and there’s no reason ever to kill an innocent human being.”

JOSH: Now practically speaking, I got the feeling that a lot of the people that are now our regular listeners of this show, once they got into that dialogue could do really well but the hard part is making that dialog happen. How do you practically speaking get to the point where you can get a pro-choice friends of yours to meet at Starbucks or do whatever where you’re going to talk about cause sometimes no one even wants to talk about, “Why would I want to talk about this with you?” kind of a thing. Well, obviously, we want to talk about it with them. How do you get that going in the first place?

LILA: Right. Well, first of all, don’t be so afraid of what people think of you. I mean, I remember as a college freshman…

JOSH: You don’t have a problem with that.

LILA: I don’t know about you. Everyone has their own struggles but I remember as a college freshman or maybe I was a sophomore at that time, the head of the Bruin Republicans group, he was introducing me to some other friends and I’m not necessarily Republican but I would come there to say the prolife message. The Democrats wouldn’t let me do it but he would say, “Oh, this is Lila. She’s the abortion girl. ‘Hi, my name is Lila Rose. I’m prolife. I’m against abortion.’” That’s how he would jokingly, mockingly almost introduce me and you know what? It’s okay because, Josh, this is the greatest human rights abuse of our day. You and I are a part of the greatest, I believe the greatest struggle our country has ever seen for the most basic human right, for the right to life for all people so we should be proud of being part of this incredible movement and when we’re talking with our friends, they should already know that about us first of all, we need to wear our positions on this most important cultural, social, political issue very openly and strongly and they should already know that about us. We must always be gracious, always be open to hearing their point of view. Open to answering their questions. Open to asking them questions. But I think that if we haven’t already made it, we need to make environment or the situation where we can have those conversations if the person is willing. So yeah, can I take you out to lunch? Talk to you more about this. I know you already think I’m crazy but let’s talk a little more about it, right? And you’d be surprised how willing people, some people maybe not but how willing most people are to have that dialog to better understand the prolife position because at the heart of it, Josh, people want to be prolife. We’re born to want to value our fellow man. We’re born to look at children, preborn children, tiny first-conceived children as a gift and not a threat. That’s what we’re meant to see and to view them as so it’s just natural for people ultimately to want to talk about it and want to accept the prolife position.

JOSH: [0:24:59] Final question, what single thing should prolife, in fact Dave Schmidt is the first person I ever asked this question so I…

LILA: Okay, so I wonder what… What did he say?

JOSH: He said, what did he say? I know he was talking about…

LILA: I’m going to fire him if he didn’t… I’m totally just kidding.

JOSH: I know he talked about not using prolife but talking about life rights.

LILA: Oh.

JOSH: I don’t remember if this is so … you guys. This is like nine months ago.

LILA: Okay.

JOSH: [0:25:15] But anyway what single thing should prolifers be doing that most are not doing right now?

LILA: I think there’s two things. First of all, we need to be more confident and courageous. Sometimes I feel like we’re apologetic or we’re afraid or we’re confused even. I think we are on the side of again, the winning side of the greatest movement for human rights that our nation has ever seen, the most fundamental right, and that’s something we need to do with a smile, with grace, with boldness because it’s a blessing, it’s a privilege, it’s the greatest of opportunity to be involved in this movement.

So that’s one thing and then the other thing is related. Show the image of abortion. Don’t let the victim be hidden. The other side has been hiding the victim for ever since before, even before Roe v Wade. Don’t let them succeed. Don’t let them win with that. Don’t let our fears or our insecurities prevent us from showing the victim to the American public, the victim that is the aborted child and that is I think the number one thing that prolifers should do more is be unafraid as much as possible to show the victim because we are not the victim. We’re the activists for the victim, the victim is what needs to be seen.

JOSH: Lila Rose is the president and founder of Live Action Films. Their website is LiveAction.org. Thank you for coming and putting up with us…

LILA: Thank you. Oh, thanks, Josh.

JOSH: …and check back in with us again next week.

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Solace and Love

2009-10-18T08:13:00.000-07:00

Come, grieving child,
let me a mother be,
your tears, your agony of soul
are known to me.
Such pain
no heart should have to bear alone,
Come close
and let me make your grief my own.

How well I know
a mother's pain of loss!
I watched my own Son die
upon the Cross.
No hymn sublime,
No earthly work of art
Can tell of empty arms and broken heart.

But, oh, my child,
His dying words ring true:
"Forgive them,
for they know not what they do."
Those outstretched arms
forevermore embrace
repentant souls
that seek His saving grace.

Go then to Jesus
and be reconciled,
Tell Him your grief
for your aborted child.
Open to Him your heart,
you inmost soul,
He yearns for you
and longs to make you whole.

Place in His heart
your guilt, your pain, your fears,
and let His gentle hand
dry all your tears.
Hear His absolving words
and, through His Blood,
find pardon, peace,
and everlasting love.

Forgiven by God,
forgive yourself, then, too,
Your precious child
forgives you and waits for you.
yesm til the day
you see her face to face,
I'll keep your baby safe
in my embrace.

Source: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/2623/me.html

The Silent Scream

2009-10-12T05:20:00.000-07:00

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, NARAL co-founder:

The destruction of an innocent human being is no solution to what is basically a social problem. I believe a resort to such violence is an admission of scientific, and even worse, ethical impoverishment. Somehow I refuse to believe that Americans, who have put man on the moon, can't devise a better solution than the resort to violence.

I think we should all, here and now, devote ourselves to an untiring effort to devise a better solution [than abortion]... Here and now, for humanity's sake, STOP THE KILLING.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Web Site: http://www.silentscream.org/

"I Regret My Abortion"
http://www.silentnomoreawareness.org/
http://www.youtube.com/user/silentnomorecampaign

Pregnant? Considering abortion? Please call for help 800.395.HELP

PLEASE CHOOSE LIFE!!!

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, co-founder of NARAL

2009-10-12T05:12:00.000-07:00

National Abortion Rights Action League Founder Reminisces

"Women must have control over their own bodies."

"Safe and legal abortion is every woman's right."

"Who decides? You decide!"

"Freedom of choice -- a basic American right."

The "pro-choice movement's" emotionally compelling slogans -- fierce rallying cries of the most successful political marketing campaign in modern history, which made abortion-on-demand legal in the U.S. -- have been powerful rhetorical weapons for fighting off efforts to reverse Roe v. Wade, coming up on its 30th anniversary next month.

"I remember laughing when we made those slogans up," recalls Bernard Nathanson, M.D., co-founder of pro-abortion group NARAL, reminiscing about the early days of the pro-abortion movement in the late '60s and early '70s.

"We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical."

Besides having served as chairman of the executive committee of NARAL -- originally, the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, and later renamed the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League -- as well as its medical committee, Nathanson was one of the principal architects and strategists of the abortion movement in the United States. He tells an astonishing story.

"In 1968 I met Lawrence Lader," says Nathanson. "Lader had just finished a book called Abortion, and in it had made the audacious demand that abortion should be legalized throughout the country. I had just finished a residency in obstetrics and gynecology and was impressed with the number of women who were coming into our clinics, wards and hospitals suffering from illegal, infected, botched abortions."

"Lader and I were perfect for each other. We sat down and plotted out the organization now known as NARAL. With Betty Friedan, we set up this organization and began working on the strategy."

"We persuaded the media that the cause of permissive abortion was a liberal, enlightened, sophisticated one," recalls the movement's co-founder. "Knowing that if a true poll were taken, we would be soundly defeated, we simply fabricated the results of fictional polls. We announced to the media that we had taken polls and that 60 percent of Americans were in favor of permissive abortion. This is the tactic of the self-fulfilling lie. Few people care to be in the minority. We aroused enough sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number of illegal abortions done annually in the U.S. The actual figure was approaching 100,000, but the figure we gave to the media repeatedly was 1,000,000."

"Repeating the big lie often enough convinces the public. The number of women dying from illegal abortions was around 200-250 annually. The figure we constantly fed to the media was 10,000. These false figures took root in the consciousness of Americans, convincing many that we needed to crack the abortion law.

"Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place illegally would then be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of birth control in the U.S. and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1,500 percent since legalization."

What was the result of NARAL's brilliantly deceitful marketing campaign, bolstered by thoroughly fraudulent research? In New York, the law outlawing abortion had been on the books for 140 years. "In two years of work, we at NARAL struck that law down," says Nathanson. "We lobbied the legislature, we captured the media, we spent money on public relations. … Our first year's budget was $7,500. Of that, $5,000 was allotted to a public relations firm to persuade the media of the correctness of our position. That was in 1969."

New York immediately became the abortion capital for the eastern half of the United States.

"We were inundated with applicants for abortion," says Nathanson. "To that end, I set up a clinic, the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health (C.R.A.S.H.), which operated in the east side of Manhattan. It had 10 operating rooms, 35 doctors, 85 nurses. It operated seven days a week, from 8 am to midnight. We did 120 abortions every day in that clinic. At the end of the two years that I was the director, we had done 60,000 abortions. I myself, with my own hands, have done 5,000 abortions. I have supervised another 10,000 that residents have done under my direction. So I have 75,000 abortions in my life. Those are pretty good credentials to speak on the subject of abortion."

But something happened to Nathanson -- something profound. Just as it happened to countless other abortion practitioners, abortion facility owners and staffers. Just as it happened to Norma McCorvey -- the real name for "Jane Roe," the plaintiff in the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision.

These pioneers of the pro-abortion movement have all arrived at the same conclusion -- that abortion is the unjust killing of a human baby -- and have come over to the other side of the raging abortion debate.

Source:
http://www.pregnantpause.org/abort/remember-naral.htm

Also:
Former Abortionist Bernard Nathanson Exposes Lies of American Pro-Abortion Movement
Confession of an Ex-Abortionist

Books:
The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind
Aborting America (Read an excerpt)

Book & DVD Recommendations

2009-10-12T04:22:00.000-07:00

The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture
Get it on Amazon
http://www.caseforlife.com/

Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments Expanded & Updated
Get it on Amazon
http://www.epm.org/

Your Developing Baby
Peter M. Doubilet, MD, PhD & Carol B. Benson, MD
Professors of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

In a single, nine-month sweep of time, a new human being, unlike any other ever born, emerges from a single cell. This unique book will take you on a guided tour of the development of a baby in the womb — using breathtaking ultrasound images, along with easy-to-understand drawings and explanations.
Get it on Amazon
http://www.yourdevelopingbaby.com/index.htm

Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy
Get it on Amazon
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/pregnancy-week-by-week/MY00331

In the Womb: Witness the Journey from Conception to Birth through Astonishing 3D Images
Get it on Amazon

From Conception to Birth: A Life Unfolds
Get it on Amazon

DVD: National Geographic - In the Womb (2005)
Get it on Amazon

NOVA - The Miracle of Life (1996)
Get it on Amazon

The Miraculous World of Your Unborn Baby : A Week-by-Week Guide to Your Pregnancy
Get it on Amazon

A Child Is Born

Get it on Amazon

Life
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Development of Human Baby (Links)

2009-10-12T03:41:00.000-07:00

The Merck Manuals: Stages of Development
A baby goes through several stages of development, beginning as a fertilized egg. The egg develops into a blastocyst, an embryo, then a fetus.
http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec22/ch257/ch257c.html

Mayo Clinic: Pregnancy Week by Week
First trimester

The first few months of pregnancy — the first trimester — are marked by rapid changes for both you and your baby.

For you, first trimester physical changes may include breast tenderness, fatigue and nausea. Your emotions may range from excitement to anxiety. For your baby, the first trimester is a time of rapid growth and development. Your baby's brain, spinal cord and other organs begin to form, and your baby's heart begins to beat. Your baby's fingers and toes even begin to take shape.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/pregnancy-week-by-week/MY00331

WebMD: Slideshow: Fetal Development Month-by-Month
Fetal Growth: Conception to Birth
You're pregnant. Congratulations! You are curious how big your developing baby is, what your baby looks like as it grows inside you, and when you'll feel it move, right? Take a peek inside the womb to see how a fetus develops from month to month.
http://www.webmd.com/baby/slideshow-fetal-development

Medline Plus: Fetal Development
Weeks 9 to 12 The baby can make a fist with its fingers.
Weeks 13 to 16
# More muscle tissue and bones have developed, and the bones become harder.
# The baby begins to make active movements.
Weeks 17 to 19
# The baby can hear.
# The baby makes more movements.
Week 20
# The baby is more active with increased muscle development.
# The mother can feel the baby moving.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002398.htm

Biology Online: Growth and Development of a Human Baby
Upon arrival in the uterus, the zygote fuses itself to the uterine wall. At this point, cells of the zygote differentiate into two distinct types
* Embryoblast Cells - These cells continually divide into what will become the embryo, the baby itself
* Trophoblast Cells - These cells form the placenta, that form against the uterine wall
http://www.biology-online.org/7/2_embryo.htm

IUPUI Human Reproduction and Development Notes
Week 9- Week 40 (Fetus)
After 12 weeks or so, the baby's development is largely "finished" - except brain and lung development
The fetus just spends much of the 2nd and 3rd trimesters just growing (and doing various flip-turns and kicks inside the amniotic fluid)
http://www.biology.iupui.edu/biocourses/n100/2k4ch39repronotes.html

The Visible Embryo
The Visible Embryo is a visual guide through fetal development from fertilization through pregnancy to birth. As the most profound physiologic changes occur in the "first trimester" of pregnancy, these Carnegie stages are given prominence on the birth spiral.
http://www.visembryo.com/baby/index.html

CDC: Having a Healthy Pregnancy
Not all birth defects can be prevented, but a woman can take some actions that increase her chance of having a healthy baby. Many birth defects happen very early in pregnancy, sometimes before a woman even knows she is pregnant. Remember that about half of all pregnancies are unplanned.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/bd/abc.htm

Medline Plus: Bringing in Baby
Early, regular prenatal healthcare is a must for mothers and babies during pregnancy. Mom (and dad!) get to discuss all the important issues with their health care providers, from nutrition and what to expect during birth, to basic skills for caring for your newborn.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/issues/winter09/articles/winter09pg3-4.html

Successful people are...

2008-01-12T05:58:00.000-08:00

I was able to get a data entry job on odesk.com. It involves mostly copying and pasting info from a web site, but the thing is, with this particular site, you would have to click on each item/link to get the info you need and then go back to the main page, click on another item and so on. This led me to my search for a simple clipboard manager (freeware) with an intuitive interface that could work well with OpenOffice software and that works in much the same way the MS Word clipboard does (i.e., it could be placed beside the file I need to paste info to and pasting could be done by just clicking the item that I need or using CTRL-V or something similar).

I tried ClipMagic which is loaded with features, including screen capture, but it didn't seem very user-friendly to me, the Help file didn't really help much, and OpenOffice froze twice. I then tried ClipDiary, Visual Clipboard, and MultiClipboard but they didn't work very well with OpenOffice and/or didn't function the way I wanted them to.

Now, I am using QClip from www.IronDust.com. It just sits in my system tray, and whenever I need an old clip, I just need to type Ctrl+Alt+V, choose the item on the clipboard that I need and then paste on my document or spreadsheet. I've only been using it for about an hour and it has definitely been a great time-saver. Unlike other programs, it can only carry text clips, but I've tried copying entire web pages and it still works like magic.

I am also using KeyNote from http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html, a "flexible, multi-featured tabbed notebook." You can use it to keep your notes, recipes, lists, file archives, source code, or any quote or snippet you read from an article. It can serve as a personal diary or information manager. Best of all, it's free! It is distributed as open source software under the Mozilla Public License. I am beginning to love it and I am using it now to write this entry.

And since I'm on a downloading frenzy today, I DLed Rainlendar too from http://www.rainlendar.net.. It's a really cool tool for those who need to remember appointments, birthdays, schedule of exams, and things-to-do.

Telecommuter's Quote: Successful people are self-starters. They are internally motivated and work hard even if no one is looking over their shoulder.

A Step of Faith

2008-01-03T16:04:00.000-08:00

After resigning from my full-time job of 9 years last October, I decided to give telecommuting a try. I recently signed up at both oDesk (private) and Elance, and I've read various articles on the subject that were mentioned by AllFreelanceWork, and Workaholics4hire, and other similar sites.

I specialize in various administrative support functions such as data entry, audio transcription, and internet/blog research. I am also attending medical transcription classes every afternoon so I can further improve my skills.

Why do I want to work from home? I simply want to seek opportunities for continuous learning at my own pace and, of course, make use of my God-given talents and skills so I can help my family and continue to provide for the child I am sponsoring through World Vision. I also would like to build my own home-based business in the future so I can help more people. I realize telecommuting is not easy, but for me, it is simply one way of using one's talents to help others by providing good quality service which, in turn, will help bless others.

If you know of any helpful articles regarding this subject or of any individual or company, esp. Christian authors or mission organizations, who may want to avail of my service, please do let me know.

This is a brand new adventure for me and it is my prayer that God will lead me through all of WAH life's ups and downs and extend His hand of blessing with every service that I provide, and...

May God shower His blessings upon YOU this new year and always!