17week old fetus(offspring) already smiling.....

From Bound for Life.com ...Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat..."

The more science looks at the fetus in the womb the more we learn about how human that fetus really is:

Transformed by a beaming smile, this is the tiny face of a foetus just 17 weeks old.

The scan implies that a baby can experience feelings such as happiness and pain much earlier in its development than previously thought.

It will prompt further calls from doctors and campaigners to lower the upper abortion limit from 24 weeks.

They claim that by his stage the unborn baby can already feel agonising pain and the procedure is therefore inhumane.

Many experts dispute these claims, however, and say that a foetus is naturally sedated and unconscious in the womb and cannot experience any senses. (Note: Unconscious and sedated does not equal dead or not human)

Professor Stuart Campbell, who took the picture at his London clinic with 3-D and 4-D scanning equipment, said it did not necessarily show the unborn child had feelings  -  but it was certainly displaying human behaviour.

'This is a joyful expression of the humanity of the foetus. I have seen a foetus making a crying face at around 18 or 19 weeks, but not a nice smile.

'This is the earliest on record  -  it is just a delight.'

It's 17 weeks today... Imagine what we'll learn tomorrow.