Back in 2003 I published a novel on abortion called, Children of the Womb, pictured above. In my novel I created a fictitious museum called The Children of the Womb Museum. Below is an excerpt from my novel on one of the exhibits in this very unique museum. I pray that this exhibit will show you just how early, in the life of the unborn, that amazing signals of life are taking place:
Next we moved on to a very simple but powerful exhibit we named Sounds from the Womb.
“Many pro-abortion advocates know that with the advent of modern medical equipment we can hear the sound of a baby’s heartbeat while still inside a mother’s womb,” Mrs. Gates said as she walked over and opened the door to the exhibit’s booth. “Obviously they don’t like to talk about this fact since they know that if a mother knew and then actually heard her tiny baby’s heartbeat she might change her mind about going through with an abortion. However, what many people don’t know is that, early on, we can listen to a baby’s heartbeat. With the aid of an ultrasonic stethoscope, we are able to actually listen to the sound of a six-week-old baby’s heartbeat.1 In fact, we recorded this for all of you to hear when you step into our Sounds from the Womb booth. At six weeks many women don’t even know they are pregnant, yet they can hear two distinct and separate heartbeats within their own body if they choose to listen.”
There was a fluttering of interest and I knew that, after this presentation, many of these people would come back to listen. When I had heard it earlier, when the exhibition was being prepared, my stomach began to turn when I realized for the first time that when I had aborted Baby Sally not only was her heart beating but it could even be heard if I only had known how to listen.
“Also inside our Sounds from the Womb booth is another recording of a baby crying,” Mrs. Gates went on. “While most people wonder what’s so special about a baby crying, since after all that’s what all babies do, they become amazed as we tell them that the cry they hear is coming from a six-month-old baby still comfortably resting inside his temporary nine month shelter-the womb. While almost everyone believes that a baby can’t cry until it is actually born, the truth is quite a different thing.”
Mrs. Gates went on to explain that, although the watery environment in which the unborn baby lives presents small opportunity for crying, which does require air, the unborn knows how to cry, and given a chance to do so, he will.
Jennifer had already told me the story Mrs. Gates was beginning to tell and I couldn’t wait to see how everyone would react when they heard the surprise ending.
With a playful look in her eyes, Mrs. Gates told our visitors that, in one particular instance, a doctor took x-rays after injecting an air bubble into a baby’s amniotic sac and noticed that the air bubble had covered the baby’s face. She then concluded by telling everyone this amusing but true eyewitness account of what happened next.
“The whole procedure had no doubt given the little fellow quite a bit of jostling about, and the moment that he had air to inhale and exhale they heard the clear sound of a protesting wail emitting from the uterus. Late that same night, the mother awakened her doctor with a telephone call, to report that when she lay down to sleep the air bubble got over the baby’s head again, and he was crying so loudly he was keeping both her and her husband awake.”2
Everybody started to laugh but I just couldn’t as I thought back to the first time I listened to the sound of this preborn crying and understood that sometimes even these millions of silent voices, destined to be aborted, could literally be heard crying out. These cries from inside the womb are just another sign that a tiny person is letting all of us know-I’m here.3
1 John C. Willke & Barbara H. Willke, Why Can’t We Love Them Both (Cincinnati: Hayes Publishing, 1997), p. 79.
2 John C. Willke & Barbara H. Willke, Why Can’t We Love Them Both (Cincinnati: Hayes Publishing, 1997), pp. 82-83.
3 Curt Blattman. Children of the Womb (Kindle Locations 2687-2720). AuthorHouse. Kindle Edition.