“…at three weeks, the cardiac tubes will begin to beat, so that the heart is beginning to beat three weeks after fertilization. And progressively, you will reach the end of the embryonic period at two months after fertilization. At that moment, the little fellow will be just the size of my thumb….all the mothers telling fairy tales to the children are speaking about the Tom Thumb story because it’s a true story. Therefore, each of us has been a Tom Thumb in the womb of the mother.
…women have always known that there was a kind of underground country, a kind of vaulted shelter, with a kind of red light and curious noise in which very tiny humans were having a very curious and marvelous life.”
Court Transcript (Circuit Court Blount County, state of Tennessee, Maryville, August 10 1989) testimony of Jerome Lejeune, M.D. PhD (Professor of the Fundamental Genetics in Paris, award winning discovered Down’s Syndrome)
Quoted in R.C. Sproul “Abortion: A Rational Look at an Emotional Issue” (Colorado Springs: Navpress) 1990 p 173
