One man called a National Geographic documentary on the development of the unborn child 'so beautiful, so awesome, it almost takes your breath away.'
Dave Andrusko of National Right to Life News raved that this award-winning National Geographic documentary “is so beautiful, so awesome, it almost takes your breath away.”
While the film has long remained in some obscurity, its video footage of the unborn baby, which vividly captures even the beating of its embryonic bright red heart, visible through transparent skin, remains on the cutting edge of fetal imaging. It films with a rare technique called embryoscopy, which involves a tiny camera the size of a pen tip.
The documentary captures amazing color footage week by week, from 4.5 weeks to 5 months, after which it switches to ultrasound images. The film consistently displays video imaging from 4.5 weeks’ gestation to 12 weeks, a time period during which the great majority of abortions are performed. The CDC reported in 2018 that 92.2% of abortions were performed within 13 weeks of gestation.
The footage of the developing baby is fascinating simply from the perspective of natural human curiosity, wonderment and awe — so much so that the documentary calls the “process by which the single-cell human zygote becomes a 100-trillion-cell adult” “perhaps the most remarkable phenomenon in all of nature.”
This National Geographic film is especially captivating because it provides a rarely-seen quality of video footage of the unborn. This unparalleled clarity of vision it literally gives to the earlier stages of human development, during which babies are most often killed through abortion, is what gives it potential to be particularly powerful for the pro-life movement.
Just as dehumanization of the unborn is what allows women and men alike to assuage their consciences about abortion — and as dehumanization has opened the door to many historical human atrocities — the humanization of the unborn is critical to moving people to act in their defense, and this is what this documentary splendidly accomplishes.
A plus of the film is that it is made more widely shareable because it is not produced by a pro-life organization, but by the National Geographic... So the documentary cannot be accused of harboring a hidden “pro-life agenda.”
The above was taken from lifesitenews.com
"By helping people see the developing child, you can motivate them to better appreciate and support pregnant women and make healthier choices during pregnancy, whenever it occurs." from https://www.ehd.org/your-life-before-birth-video/