Heart beats within 3 weeks.
The brain is formed within 4 weeks.
All major organs are in place within 8 weeks.
The brain is connected to all parts of the body by 28 weeks.
The child can recognize its mother's voice by now.
The child learns to swallow, kick, and breathe within 16 weeks.
Nerve endings develop within seven weeks.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 66 percent of legal abortions occur within the first eight weeks of gestation, and 92 percent are performed within the first 13 weeks. Only 1.2 percent occur at or after 21 weeks.
This child has a beating heart, a functioning brain, and all its organs when the earliest abortions are performed. For most others, it's already learning to breathe!