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AP Photo/Rebecca Santana In 1973 when the United States Supreme Court issued the Roe v Wade decision legalizing abortion, the justices did not know much about life in the womb or fetuses themselves. No one did—the technology simply wasn’t there.
Since then, advances in virtually every aspect of life have exploded, with the development of personal computers, cellphones with microchips more powerful than anything they had aboard the Apollo Space 11 mission, cars that drive by themselves, and so much more. Nowhere has that innovation been more pronounced than in the study of fetuses and their capabilities.
Those advances have roiled the debate over abortion and energized the pro-life movement.
Ultrasound came into widespread use in the mid-to-late 1970s and was the dominant method of prenatal screening for decades. Although it was a profound development, anyone who’s ever seen one remembers the doctor pointing at a blob on the screen and saying, “look it’s a boy, you see that, right?” (All you could do was nod, though truthfully you saw nothing more than an indistinct blur of black and white.)
In the late nineties, 3D and 4D ultrasound became prominent, and this was a game-changer because you could actually see the baby’s face, watch its movements, even see it smile or suck its thumb. Pro-life lawmakers quickly started writing laws requiring women to get ultrasounds before an abortion; meanwhile abortion advocates were outraged , with the debate continuing to this day. My daughter in the womb. The facial features she displays here are still recognizable, all these years later. Credit: Bob Hoge, used with permission.
What the justices did not know back in 1973 was all that was going on in the womb during pregnancy. Here is a heavily condensed version of a WebMD slideshow that explains each level of what we now […]
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