The Elephant in the Womb

The elephant in the room in the abortion debate---the life of the embryo.

Kathleen Parker, RCP, on the elephant in the womb in a new National Geographic movie, featuring a few other cuddly creatures:

Other stars of the film are a puppy and a dolphin. We watch the golden retriever fetus perform full-grown dog behaviors in the womb, a dolphin learn to swim inside its mother, and the elephant grow from a single cell to a 260-pound, well, elephant.

Seeing similar images of a human fetus -- blinking, sucking his thumb and responding to sounds -- is equally amazing, of course. But something about these animals in utero breathes fresh air into the life debate.

Audiences weep.

This intersects with the Roe Effect. Maybe in the 70's feminists and their enablers could kid themselves. Kids these days can see babies develop in the womb. They know it's life.