Fetal Models Offer a Unique Glimpse at Life's Beginnings.

If you've volunteered at a well-equipped pro-life fair booth, you've seen the amazement in visitors' eyes. People of all ages - - but especially children - - are especially drawn to life-size models of unborn babies. Depicted at different stages of development, these fetal models, curled snugly inside models of the womb, can be picked up and held in the palm of even a small child's hand.

Pregnant women gaze longingly at the fetal models. A woman will zero in on the model that represents her stage of pregnancy, often saying something like, "Mine seems bigger than that." Then she grabs her husband and pulls him in for a closer look.

And the children - - they love the fetal models! So many put their noses right up next to the babies and inspect every detail. Children have multiple questions about how babies develop, and they're always stunned to learn that they, too, were once that small.

Time and again, these little ambassadors of life have demonstrated their power to teach. Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL) has been effectively displaying pro-life educational material, such as fetal models, at Minnesota county fairs and at the State Fair for decades. These MCCL fair booths have reached out to hundreds of thousands of people with the pro-life message every year. In addition to fetal models, MCCL fair booths feature video sonograms of unborn babies and a wide array of literature regarding abortion, ...