Posts Tagged ‘abortion’

Last week Anne and I had a moving experience.  We saw our baby clearly for the first time. Anne went to the hospital for an ultra-sound scan.  Afterwards we looked at the pictures together.  There it is: our child, a little human being, eyes, nose, ears, fingers, toes.  Anne told me that at one point she could see the whole spine – every individual bone.

Our baby is twenty-one weeks old.  It’s thirteen weeks since its heart started beating.  It pulls …