Links: Development of Human Embryo and Fetus

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The Abortion Concern website has a ‘safe graphics’ policy, and does not contain fetal development photographs or abortion pictures.

However, we are aware that, as women recover from their abortion experience, they often wonder about the fetus, and may have questions they need to answer — eg, “what did it look like?”

The following links are to medical and scientific sites which provide objective, factual information on human development, human anatomy, embryology and/or fetology, including week-by-week descriptions throughout pregnancy.

Scientific and Medical Sites

• The Visible Embryo
Comprehensive information on human development from conception to birth, designed for both medical student and interested lay people.
• University of New South Wales Embryology
Department of Anatomy, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia. Resource developed for revision of concepts in embryological development.
• Basic Embyology Review Program
University of Pennsylvania Health System, PA, USA. Embryonic and fetal periods of development. Conception to birth.
• The Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo
University of Michigan, MI, USA. A collaboration funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Three-dimensional image reference of the human embryo based on magnetic resonance imaging.

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