Lennart Nilsson, who captured groundbreaking photos of unborn babies in the womb gave the following caption on the picture of a six week old unborn baby that appeared in Life Magazine.
“Its length is only about half an inch and it weighs only 1/25 of an ounce, yet it has already begun to take on a human appearance.”
“Embryo’s Face” Life, March 30, 1950
Sara Dubow Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) 115
