Well, here’s something you don’t see every day: MSM journalists — including MSNBC’s liberal host Chris Hayes — in awe of an image portraying precious life inside the womb. On Monday night, The New Yorker’s David Grann circulated the famous image above that’s been floating around the Internet for several years.
It’s an unborn baby elephant. But it’s a start.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 3, 2013
https://twitter.com/maggiepjones/status/374730141567422464
Wow. RT @DavidGrann Baby elephant in the womb: http://t.co/TTzZPsOQgu
— Kathleen Kingsbury (@katiekings) September 3, 2013
Very cool! Hoping what's in my womb looks nothing like this, though. “@DavidGrann: Baby elephant in the womb: http://t.co/HyHmCVVSRV”
— Michelle Maltais (@mmaltaisLA) September 3, 2013
Twitter's back up. Here's your moment of Awww. RT @DavidGrann
Baby elephant in the womb: http://t.co/tKrpf3icDo— Kristie Lu Stout✌? (@klustout) September 3, 2013
W-H-A-T! RT @DavidGrann: Baby elephant in the womb: http://t.co/nPqJG0VgOK
— Jess Gonzalez (@HessicaGonzalez) September 3, 2013
Grann retweeted the image from a parody account called @NatGeoPix…
.@DavidGrann @NatGeopix It's a lovely pic, but you do realize that @NatGeopix is a parody account, don't you? pic.twitter.com/YB69Lbt6vF
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 3, 2013
https://twitter.com/DavidGrann/status/374728668092059649
A citizen journalist on Twitter was able to track down the source of the image to a 2006 National Geographic documentary on unborn animal life. It is a realistic portrayal of an elephant embryo based on models developed using advanced ultrasound technology. It is not an actual photo.
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https://twitter.com/WrightShumate/status/374727849430638592
In its upcoming television feature In the Womb: Animals, National Geographic shows how three different mammals begin their lives inside the womb. The two-hour program, which airs Sunday at 9 p.m. PST on the National Geographic Channel, charts the fetal development of an elephant, dog and dolphin with the use of high-tech ultrasound imagery hardly seen outside a zoologist’s office, along with use of models and visual effects techniques.
To create the program, scientists used advanced ultrasound technology, called 4D (for four dimensions), to capture three-dimensional images of the animals inside the womb. Unlike traditional ultrasound, the 4D images depict the length, width and depth of the fetus in multiple real-time shots over a period of time. The effect is that of a motion picture, hence “4D.”
To cast a realistic portrait of the animals in utero, the program’s visual effects artists developed models of the animals, first in clay then in silicone, based on the ultrasound imagery. The gallery’s six images are silicone models of the animals derived from what zoologists and scientists might see in the ultrasound imagery.
The gushing over an unborn baby elephant did not go unnoticed by pro-lifers.
https://twitter.com/SolRieger/status/374730648470454272
@DavidGrann @jaketapper I will never understand how we can awe at non-human life in the womb + still have a pro-choice mentality/usa. #tcot
— J.D. Andrle (@JohnDAndrle) September 3, 2013
https://twitter.com/SolRieger/status/374729868963225601
https://twitter.com/TheRealPebo/status/374749505977331712
Give this self-described “radical liberal” university instructor points for honesty:
I am so much less likely to abort this than a human. RT @Francis_Lam: omg “@DavidGrann: Baby elephant in the womb: http://t.co/dd06DjyVgX”
— Pride Should Be a Riot ??? (@SabrinaSpiher) September 3, 2013
Father Jonathan Morris gets the last word:
The elephant in the room is the human in the womb “@DavidGrann: Baby elephant in the womb: http://t.co/zjynZmNT9f”
— Jonathan Morris (@JonMorris2019) September 3, 2013