{"id":171,"date":"2004-07-01T18:01:50","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T18:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2004-07-01T18:01:50","modified_gmt":"2004-07-01T18:01:50","slug":"life-before-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Life before birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new type of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/3846525.stm\">ultrasound scan<\/a> shows how complex a fetus has developed as early as 12 weeks. <\/p>\n<p>From the article:<br \/>\n<em>From 12 weeks, unborn babies can stretch, kick and leap around the womb &#8211; well before the mother can feel movement <\/p>\n<p>From 18 weeks, they can open their eyes although most doctors thought eyelids were fused until 26 weeks <\/p>\n<p>From 26 weeks, they appear to exhibit a whole range of typical baby behaviour and moods, including scratching, smiling, crying, hiccuping, and sucking.<br \/>\nUntil recently it was thought that smiling did not start until six weeks after birth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wow. Check out the link to see images from the scans. This scan confirms that an child in the womb is more than a collection of tissue. I think it proves the pro-life argument; it&#8217;s not a choice, it&#8217;s a baby. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new type of ultrasound scan shows how complex a fetus has developed as early as 12 weeks. From the article: From 12 weeks, unborn babies can stretch, kick and leap around the womb &#8211; well before the mother can feel movement From 18 weeks, they can open their eyes although most doctors thought eyelids &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=171\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life before birth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}