A letter from the womb

Dear parents and friends,

You cannot imagine how tiny I am but I am alive. Every day I grow a little bigger. I tell myself that one day I will grow to be a big baby, ready to enter the world outside the womb.

But how’s life in the womb? Do you really want to know? Well, it is a beautiful world of its own. We communicate with our mother more than you can ever imagine. Yesterday, mum ate a thick messy stuff I didn’t quite like. I told her not to eat that food again. She listened but not before I had kicked and punched her with my tiny legs and hands.

I am surprised many people don’t know much about us—unborn babies in the womb. Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove that we are not alive, you must all give us the benefit of the doubt and assume that we are alive. Have you forgotten so soon what the Catholic Church says about us? I just know it because mum repeats it over and over again “Conception is the beginning of human life. From t