Clumps of Tissue Can Remember?
The unborn have memories, according to medical researchers who used sound and vibration stimulation, combined with sonography, to reveal that the human fetus displays short-term memory from at least 30 weeks gestation - or about two months before they are born.
"In addition, results indicated that 34-week-old fetuses are able to store information and retrieve it four weeks later," said the research, which was released Wednesday.
In a previous study:
In 2003, psychologists and obstetricians at Queen's University in Canada found a profound mother-baby link. In a study of 60 pregnant women, they found that the unborn babies preferred the voices of their own mothers - both before and after birth.
The heart rates of fetuses sped up when they heard their mother reading a poem, and slowed down when they heard a stranger's voice - evidence of "sustained attention, memory and learning by the fetus," said Barbara Kisilevsky, a professor of nursing who led the research.
So what we have is a fetus that seems very aware and even remembers for weeks that particular stimulus are not harmful. This fetus that is months from being born can still be legally terminated, even though it has a very well developed memory. These studies show that not only can the baby learn, but she also recognizes and is comforted by the voice of her mother. Does this little person still not deserve the right to life just because she is located in the womb? Does the convenience of one individual trump the life of another?

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