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A High-Res 3D Video of the Embryonic Heartbeat
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the University of Houston, TX, adapted an imaging technique called optical coherence tomography to capture 3D video of the mammalian heart as it forms. They used the method to image a mouse embryo just 8.5 days past conception and about a day after it starts to form. In the remarkable video a normal heartbeat is visible. Normally optical coherence tomography is used for clinical imaging of the retina. Having such a high-resolution, non-invasive way to image the developing heart could perhaps help doctors treat congenital heart disorders in human babies."
It is funny that your post is modded as insightful. I think you and I both know what this technology will be used for.
This is just a screening process. So foetuses that will have any sign of cardiovascular abnormalities will be aborted. It will become just another in a round of tests that determine if a foetus will be aborted or get to live.
Yet somehow you pre-emptively blame people who are opposed to abortion (because you imagine that it is they who will use this technology).
And that is why atheists are the least liked group on the religious spectrum. People don't think of the wonder and beauty and magnificence that people like Carl Sagan or Richard Dawkins see in life, or the value that must be placed on all human life because it only comes once, despite the fact that we're all just blobs of carbon based machines and no special soul has ever been discovered. No, they instead think of nihilistic twats like the parent. Sad.