by APFLI | Aug 10, 2015 | Human Development
Video of 11-Week Baby Jumping Shows the Humanity of Preborn Children A beautiful video of a baby in utero is rapidly being shared across social media. The ultrasound shows the 11-week, 4-day-old preborn child bouncing around in the womb. [10 Aug 2015,...
by APFLI | Jun 23, 2015 | Human Development
These cute quadruplets in England set a medical first in the U.K. They are the first quadruplets ever to be conceived naturally from four separate fertilized eggs. The odds of natural quadruplets are about 1 in 700,000. To have them conceived from four different eggs...
by APFLI | Jun 9, 2015 | Human Development
In April 2014, Walker Colt P. was born at 26-weeks and spent his first three months of life in a North Carolina neonatal intensive care unit. His parents, Erica and Jared P., were worried about Walker’s health because he only weighed a pound when he was born and was...
by APFLI | Jun 8, 2015 | Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism, Human Development, Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
A study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates widespread discriminatory denial of life-preserving medical treatment to premature infants based on fear that if assisted to live they might have disabilities – in defiance of protective...
by APFLI | May 29, 2015 | Human Development
A front cover photo for TIME magazine unintentionally sends as strong a pro-life message as we could ever want: “Saving Preemies: Emalyn was Due in June, She arrived in March.” … Written by Jeffrey Kluger, the home base for the story is the Neonatal Intensive...
by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Human Development
NBC Nightly News (5/21, story 8, 3:15, Holt) reported on “concerns” that a “new kind of genetic test given to pregnant women to check the health of their unborn” babies may “have been oversold and misunderstood.” Correspondent Kate Snow reported that “prenatal DNA...
by APFLI | May 21, 2015 | Human Development
The 39-Week Initiative to discourage elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks gestation seems to be making progress in the state of Alabama. According to the report, Infant Mortality Alabama 2013 (page 13) produced by the Alabama Department of Public Health Center for...
by APFLI | May 7, 2015 | Human Development
Girls whose mothers smoked while pregnant entered puberty at a younger age in a new Australian study. Since early menstruation is linked to higher risk of uterine, endometrial and breast cancers later in life, the researchers say that maternal smoking could set up...
by APFLI | Apr 27, 2015 | Human Development
Babies played recordings of their mother’s voice while they were in the womb were born with a more developed auditory cortex – the brain’s language-processing center. What’s more fun than the latest example of how much the unborn child can...
by APFLI | Mar 21, 2015 | Human Development
The eleven points below summarize the substantial medical and scientific evidence that unborn children can feel pain by 20 weeks after fertilization. www.doctorsonfetalpain.org 1: Pain receptors (nociceptors) are present throughout the unborn child’s entire body by no...
by APFLI | Sep 15, 2014 | Human Development
A beautiful new time-lapse video celebrates the beauty of life as Korean artist and illustrator Seok Jeong Hyeon transforms a baby to an old woman in minutes. Click to Read at LifeNews.com:...
by APFLI | Jun 11, 2014 | Fertilization / Implantation, Human Development
The question of when human life begins has been answered in a variety of ways by different religious and philosophical traditions throughout the ages, leading many to conclude the question cannot be definitively answered. Yet what does science tell us about when life...
by APFLI | May 6, 2013 | Human Development
Give Your Baby the Best Chance for a Healthy Start 39 Week Initiative of Birth Outcomes Project — http://www.adph.org/owh/Default.asp?id=5848 Fetal Brain Development and Growth — Lower functions mature first; the cerebral cortex is last to develop —...
by APFLI | Mar 22, 2013 | Human Development
Waiting to Deliver is WORTH THE WEIGHT!! AVOID Early Elective Delivery — Let Your Baby Pick the Date! The steering committee for the State of Alabama Office of Women’s Health is thrilled to announce the 39 Week Initiative which the OWH is...
by APFLI | Nov 22, 2012 | Human Development
High resolution video images of unborn babies are getting widespread exposure this week thanks to a new study that saw researchers studying whether unborn babies yawn in the womb. Watch video:...
by APFLI | Nov 14, 2012 | Human Development
Your Baby’s Development Month by Month Editor’s note. This marvelous research appears on the webpage of Wisconsin Right to Life at www.wrtl.org/fetaldevelopment/monthbymonth.aspx Watch the video below to see the beginnings of life in the womb and the...
by APFLI | Oct 21, 2012 | Human Development
“Pretty Spectacular” Images of Fetal Development Available as iBook: Introducing New Technology for the Pro-Life Movement Both NRLC Director of Education Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon and myself have written glowing reviews of a book that transformed the...
by APFLI | Oct 17, 2012 | Human Development, Media - Fertilization / Pregnancy / Human Development
The iPad has come into the hands of many students across the country, and it has progressed as a helpful tool inside and outside of the classroom. While we certainly are impressed by its many practical uses, there is a new application out that is sure to win over tech...
by APFLI | Sep 27, 2012 | Human Development
Infant Mortality Rate in Alabama Falls to an All-Time Low in 2011 The Alabama Department of Public Health announces that the infant mortality rate of 8.1 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2011 is the lowest ever recorded in the state. This represents 481 infants, the...
by APFLI | Sep 8, 2012 | Human Development
Maternal Lifestyle Factors in Pregnancy Risk of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Associated Behaviors: Review of the Current Evidence (2003) Expression of Macrophage Inflammatory Protein-1β in Human Endometrium: Its Role in Endometrial...