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Jasper Gerard, Sunday Times columnist (18th April 2004) writes "For the first time since the Rolling Stones were young and hip (so we are talking, like, pre-history here, kids) the public mood could be turning slowly against abortion... It is technology ... that is helping to change attitudes." Three-dimensional images of the baby in the womb from the seventh week of pregnancy can be shown by a new ultrasound scanning machine pioneered in Britain by Professor Stuart Campbell (Daily Telegraph 13 Sept. 03). The pictures show foetuses blinking, sucking their fingers, scratching their noses, hiccuping and crying. "From 15 weeks, foetuses are seen making complex finger movements." Jasper Gerard concluded: "In 2001 there were 186,000 abortions in Britain. We are assured 88% were before 12 weeks. But that means 22,000 were after 12 weeks...
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