The Pulse
Newsletter of Georgia Right to Life
Third Trimester
Weeks 27 thru 32 - Gestational Age (Fetal Age - Weeks 25 thru 30): The fetus really fills out over these next few weeks, storing fat on the body, reaching about 15-17 inches long and weighing about 4-4 ½ lbs by the 32nd week. The lungs are not fully mature yet, but...
Second Trimester
Weeks 14 thru 16 - Gestational Age (Fetal age - Weeks 12 thru 14): The fetus’s skin is transparent and a fine hair called lanugo begins to form on the head. The fetus begins sucking and swallows bits of amniotic fluid. Fingerprints which individualize each human being...
First Trimester
Week 1 & 2 - Gestational Age: Your menstrual period has just ended, and your body is getting ready for ovulation. For most women, ovulation takes place about 11 - 21 days from the first day of the last period. During intercourse, several hundred million sperm are...
Fetal Development
Chronology of a New Life The life of a baby begins, of course, long before birth. Every new and unique human being begins his or her life at the moment of fertilization and, if not interrupted, will someday grow into an adult man or woman. Following are some facts of...
Safe Place for Newborns Act
The Georgia “Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2002” became effective August 13, 2002. This law allows a mother to leave her newborn baby within seven days of birth at any hospital in Georgia. The newborn must be left with a hospital employee and the mother must leave...
Eugenics
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” These words, written over two hundred years ago, became...
In Vitro Fertilization
In vitro fertilization (IVF) isn’t a topic that often crops up in pro-life circles, but it’s important to highlight this as an issue that affects the movement directly and has a profound impact on the way we view the dignity and value of every human life, both in and...
Chimeras
In biotechnology it is now possible to combine elements between organisms of different species. It is also possible to create cloned animals using parts of eggs from one species and nuclear genetic material from another. It is even possible to create novel organisms...
Cloning
We’ve all probably heard the term “cloning” somewhere or another – maybe a video game, a movie, a television show, or a comic book. While the practice is sometimes embellished for dramatic effect, cloning is actually a very present and very dangerous reality. Even...
Transhumanism
"Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization." - Bruce Sterling, American science fiction author Transhumanism is a term symbolized by H+ and often...
Emerging Technology
It’s no longer just about abortion. A huge example of the failure of the Right to Life movement to respond to the new emerging challenge against the sanctity of all life occurred in Missouri in 2006. On November 6 of that year Missourians approved a “ban on cloning.”...
Personhood
“What is personhood?” Personhood is merely the legal and moral recognition of a person’s entitlement to equal rights and protections. The issue of personhood poses a big question, though: what, exactly, is a person?