"In the Womb" -- One Look and Your Eyes Are Opened
Posted: Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Albert Mohler

The public discussion about the power of ultrasound and modern imaging technologies has revealed something fascinating -- the pro-abortion movement does not want us peering into the womb. The view inside the womb transforms the moral debate over abortion. Once that image is seen, the vocabulary necessarily changes.

This gestating creature is a baby, a child, a person -- and a wonder to behold. That wonder is beautifully depicted in a book released just recently by the National Geographic Society, In the Womb. Put simply -- the book is one of the most amazing volumes my eyes have ever seen.

The book's author is Peter Tallack, a geneticist and science writer who, along with scientific modeler David Barlow and ultrasound expert Professor Stuart Campbell, brings together absolutely incredible "four-dimensional" images and photographs of the developing baby. the rest