Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Music in Utero: The Smile of the Unborn

by Chuck Colson
BreakPoint June 29, 2009

In 1984, a video called The Silent Scream helped change the way people think about the unborn child. The footage of an actual abortion and the fetus’s reaction reminded us that abortion involves the death of a real person.


A recent bit of footage has similar potential, only it couldn’t be more different from The Silent Scream...


A segment of The Music Instinct featured Sheila C. Woodward of the University of Southern California, who has studied fetal responses to music. A camera and a microphone designed for underwater use were inserted into the uterus of a pregnant woman. And then Woodward sang.


The hydrophone picked up two sounds: the “whooshing” of the uterine artery and the unmistakable sound of a woman singing a lullaby.


Then something extraordinary happened. Upon hearing the woman’s voice, the unborn child smiled.


http://www.crosswalk.com/news/11605346/

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