Edwarda and E,
Sleight of hand with factual information simply will not do
So you two can quit having "meaningful discussion" over this, I am posting now. Will you take the time to read it?
My intent with my original posting had nothing to do with slight of hand. I posted the information from an 18 year old pamphlet called " Milestones of Early Life" . Here it is.
Conception: The father's sperm penetrates mother's egg cell. Genetic instructions from both parents interact to begin a new and unique individual - no bigger than a grain of sugar.
1st day: The first cell divides into two, the two into four, and so on.
5-9 days: The new individual burrows into the wall of the womb.
14 days: Mother's menstrual period is suppressed by a hormone produced by her child.
18 days: Heart is forming. Soon eyes start to develop.
20 days: Foundations of brain, spinal cord and nervous system are laid.
24 days: Heart begins to beat.
28 days: Muscles are developing along the future spine. Arms and legs are budding.
30 days: Child has grown 10,000 times to 6-7 mm (1/4") long. Brain has human proportions. Blood flows in veins (but stays separate from mother's blood).
35 days: Pituitary gland in brain is forming. Mouth, ears and nose are taking shape.
40 days: Heart's energy output is 20percent of adult's.
42 days: Skeleton is formed. Brain coordinates movement of muscles and organs. Reflex responses have begun. Penis is forming in boys. (Mother misses second period.)
43 days: Brain waves can be recorded.
45 days: Spontaneous movements have begun. Buds of milk teeth have appeared.
7 weeks: Lips are sensitive to touch. Ears may resemble family pattern.
8 weeks: Child is well proportioned. Now a small scale baby, 3cm (1 1/8") and weighing a gram (1/30th oz.) Every organ is present. Heart beats sturdily. Stomach produces digestive juices. Liver makes blood cells. Kidneys begin to function. Taste buds are forming.
8 « weeks: Fingerprints are being engraved. Eyelids and palms of hands are sensitive to touch.
9 weeks: Child will bend fingers around an object placed in the palm. Thumb sucking occurs. Fingernails are now forming.
10 weeks: Body is sensitive to touch. Child squints, swallows, puckers up brow and frowns.
11 weeks: Baby urinates, makes complex facial expressions - even smiles.
12 weeks: Vigorous activity shows distinct individuality. Child can kick, turn feet, curl and fan toes, make a fist, move thumbs, bend wrists, turn head, open mouth and press lips tightly together. Breathing is practiced.
13 weeks: Face is prettier, facial expressions resembling parents'. Movements are graceful, reflexes vigorous. Vocal chords are formed (but without air baby cannot cry). Sex organs are apparent.
4 months: Child can grasp with hands, swim and turn somersaults.
4-5 months: Mother first feels baby's movements.
5 months: Sleeping habits appear, but a slammed door will provoke activity. Child responds to sounds in frequencies too high or low for adults to hear.
6 months: Fine hair grows on eye brows & head. Eye-lash fringe appears. Weight is about 640g (22 oz.), height 23 cm (9"). Babies born at this age have survived.
7 months: Eye teeth are present. Eyelids open and close, eyes look around. Hands grip strongly. Mother's voice is heard and recognized.
8 months: Weight increases by 1 kg. (over 2 lbs.) and baby's quarters get cramped.
9 months: Child triggers labor and birth occurs, usually 255-275 days after conception. Of 45 generations of cell divisions before adulthood, 41 have taken place. Four more will come during the rest of childhood and adolescence.
After spending time looking at information, here is a little of what I found.
A heart of a "first few weeks" old person is proportionately MUCH larger than an adults;
**A human being's heart is about the size of that human being's fist. As the body develops, the heart grows at the same rate as the fist. So an infant's heart and fist are about the same size at birth. In the womb, however, that similarity was not always true. During the first few weeks after conception, the fetal heart occupies most of the fetus' mid-section. The heartsize to bodysize ratio is nine times greater in the fetus than in the infant
Franklin Institute Online.
sln.fi.edu
and beats faster also,
In a test performed by Terry J. Dubose MS RDMS Director Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences;,was done to see if gender can be told by fetal heart rate, One can see on the graphs provided in the site , that at 5-6 weeks(in that 40 day range), the hearts of most of the fetal test cases are beating at 100 to 125 beats per minute.
(DuBose, Porter, Dickey, et al; Sonographic Correlation of Fetal Heart Rage and Gender; J Diag. Med. Sonography, 1989; 5(2):49-53 and DuBose, Cunyus & Johnson; Embryonic Heart Rate and Age, JDMS, 1990; 6(3): 151-157).
and a little more information to see,
18 days - heart begins to beat.
21 days - pumps own blood through separate closed circulatory system with own blood type.
42 days - brain waves recorded, skeleton complete, reflexes present.
(*Source: M. Allen et. al., "The Limits of Viability." New England Journal of Medicine. 11/25/93: Vol. 329, No. 22, p. 1597)
SO....from a purely narrowly defined point.. E gets to keep her money, which matters to me only because a good ProLife cause could have used it, and although I could not find the direct scientific quote proving that one statement, I will not apologize for making the statement, as it is shown that the young heart is proportionately larger, working harder, etc.
As far as meaningful discussion, after all these years? It reminds me of the statement made AGAIN by a anti-lifer on tv just the other day, when she said that it is the same as if a woman has an infection in her leg, and the choice to treat it with anti-biotics or have it cut off has to be hers. Imagine that..... |
