{"id":3961,"date":"2017-09-19T13:40:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T12:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2017-09-19T13:41:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T12:41:02","slug":"unborn-child-drawn-by-da-vinci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/unborn-child-drawn-by-da-vinci\/","title":{"rendered":"Unborn Child Drawn by Da Vinci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yaRxSk2twcA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3962\" style=\"width: 1747px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/unborn-child-drawn-by-da-vinci\/leonardo-da-vinci-child-in-womb-drawing-detail\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3962\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Leonardo-Da-Vinci-Child-in-Womb-drawing-detail.jpg\" alt=\"Leonardo Da Vinci - Child in Womb drawing detail\" width=\"1747\" height=\"659\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Leonardo-Da-Vinci-Child-in-Womb-drawing-detail.jpg 1747w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Leonardo-Da-Vinci-Child-in-Womb-drawing-detail-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Leonardo-Da-Vinci-Child-in-Womb-drawing-detail-768x290.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Leonardo-Da-Vinci-Child-in-Womb-drawing-detail-1024x386.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Leonardo-Da-Vinci-Child-in-Womb-drawing-detail-700x264.jpg 700w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Leonardo-Da-Vinci-Child-in-Womb-drawing-detail-332x125.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1747px) 100vw, 1747px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonardo Da Vinci &#8211; Child in Womb drawing detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>We are never as pure as when before we are born, when we truly are faultless, but again, he who walks through sin and is tempted little is purer than he who chose not to talk through the temptation lest he give in. Life truly before birth is as valid as after, no matter what the pro-choice lobby says. An old verse of mine&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Drawn by Da Vinci&#8217;s hand<br \/>\nCurled in womb, head on knees,<br \/>\nAn infnat unborn, without sin<br \/>\nThe viewer of the picture sees.<\/p>\n<p>An infant pure who has not sinned<br \/>\nOr angered God in any way<br \/>\nWho has not learned to laugh or cry<br \/>\nKnows not how t osin or pray.<\/p>\n<p>Like water to which mud is added:<br \/>\nIs never as pure after birth as it was before&#8230;<br \/>\nBut birth &#8211; it IS life, mystery and wonder:<br \/>\nAfter birth, the child is MORE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are never as pure as when before we are born, when we truly are faultless, but again, he who walks through sin and is tempted little is purer than he who chose not to talk through the temptation lest he give in. Life truly before birth is as valid &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[234,217,155,523,7,522,6],"tags":[3836,2357,596,2354,3835,3833,65,3837,3832,3514,3692,3834],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-cause-for-pause","category-death","category-hope-and-faith","category-life","category-poems-of-faith","category-video-poetry","tag-8th-amendment","tag-abortion","tag-art-inspired-poetry-2","tag-death","tag-fetus","tag-leonardo-da-vinci","tag-life-2","tag-loveboth","tag-prochoice","tag-prolife","tag-savethe8th","tag-scientific-argument-against-abortion","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-11T","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":242,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/from-the-womb-she-speaks\/","url_meta":{"origin":3961,"position":0},"title":"From the Womb She Speaks","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"22nd October 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dFHhn6FHQNM Abortion promotes women's rights we are told - forgetting that at least half the victims of abortion are female, even more where female children are less valued than male, This poem tells the story from a female fetus's point of view.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cause for Pause&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cause for Pause","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/video-poetry\/cause-for-pause\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/dFHhn6FHQNM\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5086,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/had-she-never-written-a-poem\/","url_meta":{"origin":3961,"position":1},"title":"Had She Never Written a Poem","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"14th October 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh that as they lay there On the floor of the family home Taken by gas like to many of their folk Had she never written a poem! - For all their beauty they are not worth The sin that only God can forgive - Her little ones, born and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Abortion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Abortion","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/abortion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Assia Wevill","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/elcultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/imgBD\/20150327\/letras\/img\/36179_1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":156,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/blog-savita-a-tragedy-of-errors-and-the-abortion-issue\/","url_meta":{"origin":3961,"position":2},"title":"Blog &#8211; Savita, a Tragedy of Errors and the Abortion Issue","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"6th April 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Savita case is a tragedy of errors that ought never have happened, and while no-one has been blamed as\u00c2\u00a0responsible\u00c2\u00a0as such - nothing new there - it is clear that free for all abortion would not solve the issue, and is a\u00c2\u00a0separate\u00c2\u00a0issue that cannot be used to argue for or\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Abortion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Abortion","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/abortion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Why was a section not done? 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