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A Winning Team:
There are many reasons why pro-lifers are on the "Winning Team" as outlined in a recent article by Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life.
The reasons are:
1. Young people are joining the pro-life side because they realize that the millions who died by abortion would have been their friends, relatives, sisters, brothers, and spouses.
2. Many women and men around the world are speaking out how they regret having their child killed by abortion.
3.There is a growing body of medical, psychological, and sociological evidence that abortion harms women, men, and families.
4. Abortion clinics are closing because of a shortage of abortionists. More and more doctors are avoiding becoming abortionists because of the stigma attached to it, since abortionists are considered the "losers" of the medical profession.
5. More people are converting from being pro-choice to pro-life than from pro-life to pro-choice.
6. The promises of abortion supporters that abortion would improve society by reducing child abuse, and strengthening family life have not come true. It has actually made these problems worse.
7. Pro-abortion political action committees have been losing most of the political races even though they have outspent pro-life groups by wide margins.
8. Court decisions are finally swinging to the pro-life side as evidenced by the recent upholding of the law against partial birth abortion.
9. There has been legislative progress to protect the legal status of unborn children, such as the Born Alive Infants Protection Act and the Unborn Victims of Violence Act.
10. The filth in abortion clinics, falsifying of medical records, sexual abuse of women seeking abortions, failing to report statutory rape of minors, and rampant OSHA violations are resulting in clinics being closed down by state authorities.

Timeline of a pre born child

The timeline below only reinforces the awesome nature of God, the Author of Life. Each of us started our lives in this manner.
And so it is with each of God's precious children.
Immediately upon fertilization, cellular development begins. Even before implantation, the sex of the new life can be determined.
At implantation, the new life is composed of hundreds of cells and has developed a protective hormone to prevent the mother's body from rejecting it as a foreign tissue

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At 17 days, the new life has developed its own blood cells; the placenta is a part of the new life and not of the mother.
At 18 days, occasional pulsations of a muscle this will be the heart.
At 19 days, the eyes start to develop.
At 20 days, the foundation of the entire nervous system has been laid down.
At 24 days, the heart has regular beats or pulsations.
At 28 days, 40 pairs of muscles are developed along the trunk of the new life, arms and legs are forming.
At 30 days, regular blood flow within the vascular system; the ears and nasal development have begun.
At 40 days, the heart energy output is reported to be almost 20% of an adult.
At 42 days, skeleton complete and the reflexes are present.
At 43 days, electrical brain wave patterns can be recorded. This is usually ample evidence that "thinking" is taking place in the brain.
At 49 days, the baby has the appearance of a miniature doll with complete fingers, toes and ears.
At 56 days, all organs functioning stomach, liver, kidney, brain all systems intact. Lines in palms.
This is approximately two months before "quickening" yet there is a new life with all of its parts needing only nourishment.
The mother will usually not feel the child's movements until four months after conception.
9th and 10th week, squints. swallows, retracts tongue.
11th and 12th week, arms and legs move, sucks thumb, inhales and exhales amniotic fluid, nails appearing.
16 weeks, genital organs clearly differentiated, grasps with hands. swims, kicks and turns somersaults (still not felt by mother).
18 weeks, vocal cords working -- can cry.
20 weeks, hair appears on head; weight--one pound; height--12 inches. A fetus (little one, child, baby) is essentially no different at fertilization, 10 weeks, 20 weeks or 30 weeks.

A person is a person, no matter how small.