Science is providing answers to the single most contentiontious issue in American doemstic politics. The central question of the abortion debate has always been: when does a fetus become a human being? Abortion advocates like to claim there there is a a period post-conception in which the term "fetal tissue mass" is appropriate to describe the child being gestated. The de-personalized phrase then begs the question: when does the FTM become a human being? Alexander Tsiaris of Yale Medical School has produced a beautiful video overview of fetal development, from conception through birth, that details the process visually, and puts the lie to efforts to find a strict dividing line between FTM and human being. Education based on this kind of science is the only way to achieve a national consensus on abortion. Watch this video and see if you agre that this is a step forward in building a shared undertsanding of the humanity of the children we are fortunate enough to...(Read Full Post)