CareNet Pregnancy Centers offers many services to women facing unplanned pregnancies including free pregnancy tests, non-medical pregnancy consultations, and education about abortion. This center does not offer abortions or abortion referrals.  

Is a Fetus Alive?

 Some people say human life begins at conception. Others insist the human fetus becomes a person at birth, or even at some time after birth. Still others point to a time in the middle, the twentieth week of gestation, because at that point a baby is viable - can live outside the womb.

 

WHO IS RIGHT? The question is important when thinking about abortion.

 

Five signs of life in the womb:

 

Heartbeat

 

Modern technology can detect a baby's heartbeat eighteen days after conception. This is only four days after most women miss a period and begin to suspect they are pregnant. Most abortions are not performed until the eighth week (56 days) of a pregnancy, or a little later.

 

Brain waves

 

Six weeks after conception signals from the fetal brain can be detected. Dream patterns have been discovered around the eighth or ninth week. Perhaps more advanced technology will someday show us heartbeats and brain waves at even earlier stages in the unborn child's life.

 

Independent movement

 

At about the sixth week, the baby in the womb can move spontaneously: kicking, swimming, jumping and stretching. This is long before the mother will feel any sensations of movement.

 

Senses

 

A baby in the womb is capable of responding to touch and sound by about the eighth or tenth week. A child at that age will move away from painful stimuli; the most painful of which would be the abortionist's instrument.

 

Breathing

 

By about the fourteenth week, a baby's lungs are functioning and he or she will practice breathing. Vocal cords are formed by the thirteenth week, and were it not for a lack of air, the baby could be heard to cry! From the very beginning, once a human egg is fertilized by sperm, there exists a new human being. All information about the child's sex, hair color, eye color, and much more is already present.

 

Is a Fetus a Person?

 Once a human egg is fertilized by sperm, a new human being exists. All information concerning the child's sex, hair color, eye color, and much more is already present from the beginning.