Idle Mendacity Ponders "The Marvel That Is Human Life"

Hat tip to Carmel of Winterr's Words.

Jack Bennett of Idle Mendacity reflects on the origin of human life--all human life. He stands in awe at the gift of conception and gestation. In the Womb, premiering on the National Geographic Channel, helped him experience the wonder through some of the most amazing photography of all time. He majestically expresses the awe any of us with hearts feel in the presence of this biological mystery. He portrays the horror of experimentation on these children in the name of progress just as poetically:

I was really in thrall of how this one little cell could turn out to be such a beautiful little girl in the span of mere months. How complicated the human body is. How wonderful. More than anything it cemented my feelings of sickness at the casual experimentation and bio-engineering on human embryos in the name of "progress" and the destruction of fetuses especially in the later months in the name of that most benign of euphemisms, "choice". Of course I had these feelings before but they were more academic and idealistic than real. Biology was never my strong suit and I shied away from seeing anything to do with pictures of people's insides. But I do know enough to realize that human life is a marvel and the way it all comes together to form a person, like each one of us, is in its way a miracle - even if it's a miracle we can't see it with our own eyes.

I can't improve on his testimony. His counsel shames those who look upon a pregnant woman and see a means to their own ends, be they financial or ideological. Their terror rests in their ignorance of their shame.

Life is so precious. In every moment. Most especially, in the dawn. May everyone come to see that one day.