Babies—Humans in the Womb

by Ken Ham on April 14, 2026

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Studies show that newborns prefer faces to other shapes and will look for faces after they’re born. Well, a recent study showed that unborn babies have the same affinity for faces. It seems babies have this instinct even before they’re born!

People try to downplay the humanness of the unborn so they can justify killing them by abortion. By studies increasingly show that you have to ignore reality to argue that unborn babies somehow aren’t human persons.

Of course science is just confirming the Bible’s teaching. Life begins at the moment of fertilization. And taking that life, at any stage of development, is murder.

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