Comments on: Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to Birth — Visualized [VIDEO]

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By: janet brunermer AKA SteelCityMom

janet brunermer AKA SteelCityMom — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:29:55 +0000

Thanks for this, Father Jacobse! Fascinating!

I came across TEDtalks when my husband and I ditched cable and satellite TV and
got a ROKU. I am addicted!

I purposely didn't watch this talk on ROKU because I quickly realized that for
the most part TEDtalks are progressive and left-wing. In this case, I didn't
want a bunch of gory images floating around in my head. When I saw this on your
site, with no graphic warnings, I trusted it would be a must see.

When I was 18, a bunch of friends and I went to the Chicago Museum of Art (I was
stationed at the then Fort Sheridan near Chicago, Illinois). At one point we
came across a display of very large, cylinder-like chambers housing babies in
some kind of fluid at the different stages of life. I asked the security guard
who made them. She just shrugged her shoulders and looked away. One of my
friends said whoever made them did a great job. I got as close to the glass as I
could without pressing my face against the glass. Every last detail was PERFECT!
I told my friends that whoever made them would rival G-d…they were THAT
perfect in every way. Later that evening, the news reported that a bunch of
protesters that were against the display had been arrested. It turns out the
'art babies' were in fact real, aborted babies. My heart sank, and I puked for
an hour.
This was a much better way of seeing life stages in the womb. Having four boys
(my biggest was 10 and a half pounds), I always wondered how my big, burly
babies made it through the birth canal. I mean, I knew, but this really brings
the whole process home. It also showed me what a miracle ALL of life is….from
the moment of conception up to birth (and to our last dying breath)…just WOW!!

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:03:25 +0000

While I reject the notion that the right to “privacy” trumps the right to life of the unborn in all of its developmental stages, I’m not sure there’s a sound legal or even theological case for suggesting that this right extends to recently fertilized eggs (a notion recently rejected in Mississippi). About 2/3 of fertilized eggs never end up developing: are we to believe that Heaven is predominantly populated by the souls of these fertilized ovum?

While I’d like to see greater legal restrictions on abortion, I think moving the goalposts to fertilization is overshooting it a bit. I realize there’s no scientific definition of a soul, but Christianity has generally considered the properties of a soul to include the capacity for consciousness and self-awareness (although self-awareness may be absent in cases of coma or PVS). Plato believed it was formed by “the intellect (noûs), the nobler affections (thumós), and the appetites or passions (epithumetikón).”. IOW: the soul develops in union with the mind/brain. This puts us between 4-7 weeks of development.

By: cynthia curran

cynthia curran — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:28:16 +0000

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:04:10 +0000

This talk made be wonder about what took place at the recent OCAMPR Conference. The theme of the conference was on the science and technology of conception and it took place around November 5th. However, I have been unable to find any of the proceedings on the OCAMPR’s website. I do wonder how these folks tackled these questions as I have had my doubts in the past as to whether or not they are devoted to teaching what the Church teaches.