Via Microcosm

By

Dr. M.R. De Haan

“It is now definitely known that the blood which flows in an unborn babes arteries and veins is not derived from the mother but is produced within the body of the fetus itself only after the introduction of the male sperm. An unfertilized ovum can never develop blood since the female egg does not by itself contain the elements essential for the production that blood can develop. As a very simple illustration of this, think of an egg of a hen. An unfertilized egg is just an ovum on a much larger scale than the human ovum. You may incubate this unfertilized egg in just an ovum on a much larger scale than the human ovum. You may incubate this unfertilized hen’s egg but it will never develop. It will decay and become rotten, but no chick will result. Let that egg be fertilized by the introduction of the male sperm and incubation will bring to light the presence of life in that egg. After a few hours it visibly develops.

In a little while red streaks occur in the egg denoting the presence of blood. This can never occur and does never occur until the male sperm has been united with the female ovum. The male element has added life to the egg. Life is in the blood according to scripture, for the L-rd told Moses, “For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the alter to make an atonement for your souls; For it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.”…”For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, ‘Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof; whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.’ (Lev 17:11,14)

Since there is no life in the egg until the male sperm unites with it, and the life is in the blood, it follows that the male sperm is the source of the blood, the seat of life. For this very reason, it is unnecessary that a single drop of blood be given to the developing embryo in the womb of the mother. The mother provides the fetus with the nutritive elements for the building of that little body, but all the blood which forms in that little body is formed in the embryo itself and only as a result of the contribution of the male parent. From the time of conception to the time of birth of the infant not one single drop of blood ever passes from mother to child. The placenta, that mass of temporary tissue known better as “afterbirth,” forming that union between mother and child is so constructed that although all the soluble nutritive elements such as proteins, fats, carbohydrates, salts, minerals, and even antibodies pass freely from mother to child and the waste products of the child’s metabolism are passed back to the mother’s circulation, no actual interchange of a single drop of blood ever occurs normally. All the blood which is in the child is produced within the child itself as a result of the introduction of the male sperm. The mother contributes no blood at all.