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Module 4- Pre-natal
Total Score= 80/80
Evaluate
A. Read the article "Life Before Birth" below then answer the following questions:
1. What are your feelings and reactions about what you read? (30 pts.)
2. Do you agree that which is developing in the womb is a mere "blob of tissue" or
"uterine contents" as abortionists claim? Share your explanation. (20 pts. )
Life Before Birth
The development of the unborn child
The development of human life in the womb was once a mystery, but science and
medicine have changed that. Abortion advocates still try to dehumanize the developing baby in
the womb by speaking of the child as "a blob of tissue" or "uterine contents." But ultrasound
images, prenatal surgery and other advances in obstetrics are shattering the blob-of-tissue myth.
Dr. Paul Rockwell, a New York physician, made these profound observations after his
amazing encounter with a tiny unborn baby boy: "Eleven years ago while I was giving an
anesthetic for a ruptured ectopic "pregnancy (at two months gestation), "I was handed what I
believe was the smallest living human ever seen. The embryo sac was intact and transparent.
Within the sac was a tiny human male swimming extremely vigorously in the amniotic fluid, while
attached to the wall by the umbilical cord."
This tiny human was perfectly developed, with long, tapering fingers, feet and toes. It was
transparent, as regards the skin, and the delicate arteries and veins were prominent to the ends
of the fingers. "The baby was extremely alive and swam about the sac approximately one time
per second, with a natural swimmer's stroke. This tiny human did not look at all like the photos
and drawings and models of 'embryos' which I have seen, nor did it look like a few embryos I
have been able to observe since then, obviously because this one was alive!"
"When the sac was opened, the tiny human immediately lost its life and took on the
appearance of what is accepted as the appearance of an embryo at this stage (blunt extremities,
etc.)
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"It is my opinion that if the lawmakers and people realize that this very vigorous life is
present, it is possible that abortion would be found more objectionable than euthanasia."
The point at which Dr. Rockwell witnessed this unborn baby - eight weeks after
conception - is during the period that a majority of abortionists describe as most desirable for
performing an abortion.
B. Give some hazards of pre-natal development. Use the given graphic organizer. (30 pts. )
Pre-natal
Development
- Zygote,
Embyo, Fetus
Reference:
Corpuz, Bella B, Lucas, Ma. Rita D. Borabo, Heidi Grace L and Lucido, Paz I. (2018).
Lorimar Academix. pp 196.
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God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life.
- John 3:16
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That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him
from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.
- Romans 10:9, 10
