The Daily Telegraph's Health Picture Galleries include this lovely set: A Child is Born: Photographs of the foetus developing in the womb, by Lennart NilssonThe above photo is of a baby at 8 weeks, protected in the foetal sac.
Nowadays, there are plenty of ultrasound vids on YouTube. Here is an "oldie but goldie" that I remember seeing before YouTube was invented.
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Off-topic brief query about excommunication:
If a bishop excommunicates someone is that excommunication only in his particular diocese, or is the excommunication valid throughout the Church?
Secondly, can bishops excommunicate groups of people, or only individuals?
Thanks for any help!
Sorry to put a "downer" on things but when I see these anatomical pictures I always wonder HOW they were obtained!? There obviously isn't an intact uterus still enfolding that foetus.
I therefore don't find them particularly "pro-life" just rather chilling. When we had our last baby, a home birth at which the other children were present, the enlightened midwife gave us lots of books to help "prepare" the other children. One of the books was full of these pictures of real foetuses, I couldn't use it, they just saw the cartoon type books...... Like I said, sorry.
Incredible... brings tears to your eyes! Isn't God wonderful...
Red Maria - I'm not a canon lawyer but as far as I understand it:
Excommunication prevents a person celebrating or receiving the sacraments etc. anywhere. (Canon 1331.1 does not speak of any limits.)
A bishop can excommunicate groups of people, for example everyone belonging to a particular organisation.
Ha ha that driving video was funny!
We're expecting twins towards the end of January!! I wish I could find some good in-utero pictures of twins. I'm so curious to know how they fit?? Not easily as evidenced by the amount of pain I'm in these days as I enter my 6th month and their little skeletons have hardened! I'm convinced that these babies have six elbows and six knees each!
What an amazing scan. Now all they need to do is bring down the age for driving. Forget 17 years, just 17 days.
Amanda, as far as I know, those pictures by Lennart Nilsson are taken so, that the baby indeed lives on -intact in the uterus.
So not to worry :-)
We have the book by Lennart Nilsson, and it goes in the family to that member, who is currently expecting
:-D
mariaimmaculata
That isn't my understanding of how the pictures were made....how COULD that be possible?
I've had Nilsson's book for many years but only recently did a little digging to find out how he'd taken the photos - I felt a little uneasy about them as well. It appears that Nilsson has used aborted babies for his photos in the past -- see info at http://www.lennartnilsson.com/q_a.html and http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/visibleembryos/s7_4.html
The interview at http://www.lennartnilsson.com/q_a.html
says:
"INTERVIEWER: Even if there was much praise for your Life reportage and for the various editions of A Child is Born, some people reacted against your use of aborted foetuses to describe foetus development. Has that criticism affected you?
LN: To be able to show the development of the foetus at all from the very earliest stage, I used macro-lenses and wide-angled special optics, manufactured specially for me by Karl Storz in Germany and Jungners Optiska in Stockholm. And for technical reasons related to photography, I had to use foetuses from what are called extrauterine pregnancies. But I have also shot living foetuses in the womb using an endoscope. These days, I work with ultrasound and three-dimensional pictures taken through the skin from outside the body. It is a tremendously exciting technique, although it still doesn’t reach the same technical quality as my old pictures. But it has allowed me to capture the facial expressions of foetuses, for example, which I couldn’t do before. People who have seen ultrasound pictures I have taken in the eighth weed of pregnancy say they wonder if any woman could contemplate abortion after having seen them!"
I felt rather ill when I read this. Having looked at these photos throughout all four of my pregnancies, it's an odd and sobering thought that some of the photos I looked at while my own babies were growing inside me were of babies who had been killed. I've not looked at the book since -- I'm not sure I'd be able to without wondering whether the babies in the photos are now alive...
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