Sometimes we lied. A girl might ask what her baby was like at a certain point in the pregnancy: Was it a baby yet? Even as early as 12 weeks a baby is totally formed, he has fingerprints, turns his head, fans his toes, feels pain. But we would say ‘It’s not a baby yet. It’s just tissue, like a clot.’
— Kathy Sparks, as told in “The Conversion of Kathy Sparks” by Gloria Williamson, Christian Herald Jan 1986 p 28
When a Baby's Not a Baby
