by APFLI | Jun 23, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases, Media - Fertilization / Pregnancy / Human Development, Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption, Responses - Ideas To Promote Life
Among the various pro-life bills introduced at the state level, Oklahoma’s recent plan to start teaching fetal development in public schools deserves far more attention than it’s gotten so far. Banning certain abortion procedures, regulating abortionists, defunding...
by APFLI | May 24, 2016 | Fertilization / Implantation
A fluorescent flash captures the moment that sperm enzyme enters the egg — see photos at http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2016/05/flash-of-light-not-needed-to-prove-conception/#.V0TTgvkrLIU In a May 23, 2016, National Catholic Register article,...
by APFLI | Dec 6, 2015 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother, Prenatal Surgery
When Andrea Hasse of Michigan was pregnant with her son, Grant, he was diagnosed with a condition that has about 1% chance of survival. His airways were largely blocked and he would suffer from lack of oxygen after birth. Doctors operated at 27 weeks of pregnancy and...
by APFLI | Sep 11, 2015 | Delivery / Breastfeeding / Neonatal Issues, Studies - PreTerm Delivery / Premature Birth / Prematurity Complications
Over the past two decades, doctors have made significant progress in saving the earliest premature babies, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association. Between 1993 and 2012, the study found a “significant increase in...
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 17, 2015 | Resources, Support
Pregnancy Helplines: 888-4-OPTIONS 800-712-HELP www.PregnancyDecisonLine.org Heartbeat International — Option Line®, 24/7, via the phone 1-800-712-HELP text — “HELPLINE” to 313131 internet — www.OptionLine.org live chat, and...
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 18, 2015 | Prenatal Surgery
On May 12, 2015, David A. Prentice, Ph.D., Vice President and Research Director of the Charlotte Lozier Institute, was invited to speak on the science of fetal pain on Point of View radio talk show. On May 13, 2015 the United States House of Representatives passed the...
by APFLI | May 18, 2015 | Media - Fertilization / Pregnancy / Human Development
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by APFLI | May 18, 2015 | Fetal Ultrasound
[See video at link below] Tatiana Guerra, 30, is from Brazil, and was 20 weeks pregnant when this video was taken. When she was 17, she lost her sight. Courtesy of Huggies Brazil and the digital design firm, The Goodfellas, what you see on YouTube is the unfolding of...
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...