Real reason abortion providers oppose ultrasounds: 78% change minds
In Planned Parenthood’s world, allowing a woman to see an image of her baby on the ultrasound screen is a “dangerous agenda.” Many women who have abortions do not know the truth about fetal development….
The language of abortion counselors is often crafted carefully to avoid any reference to the baby. Even the term “fetus” is not always used. A 2012 NPR radio program interviewed abortion workers at a facility in England. In the interviews, the clinic workers never mention the word “abortion.” Rather, abortions were referred to as “treatments” – e.g., “the treatment room,” “treatment counseling,” etc.
Ultrasounds cut through all this evasive rhetoric. They show the reality of the unborn baby. As for abortion providers’ statements that ultrasounds are “cruel” and “torture weapons,” anyone who has listened to women who regret their abortions has heard, over and over again, “I wish I’d had more information.” “If I’d known what abortion would really do to my baby, I wouldn’t have had one.”…
So why do abortion providers avoid showing ultrasound images to women? Perhaps this is because up to 78% of women who see an ultrasound of their babies choose not to have abortions.
~ Sarah Terzo, Live Action News, February 6
[Image via Alpha Pregnancy Center]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
In thee most expansive and charitable assessment I can envision, I believe that the abortion providers believe that the woman has wrestled with the decision and has come to a firm decision. Showing such images will only confound and confuse her with emotions that will torture her further and not change the reality that has led her to the abortion clinic in the first place.
That’s the rationalization.
The reality is that these abortionists and their staffs are medical dead-enders. They have washed out of the respective fields of medicine because of their incompetence. Showing a sonogram should be part of the standard of care, under the rubric of fully informed consent.
When all is said and done, medical school loans still need to be repayed, as do the loans on the car, the mortgage, etc. Truth is bad for business in the abortion industry.
At least Obama had dossiers on most of the people he targeted for the death drones, so he knew who he was killing.
It makes a difference when you have to look at someone before you sign their death warrant.
Abortionists do ultrasounds so they can see what they are doing as they murder the child.
Showing the mother her child BEFORE the ultrasound would result in fewer abortions. We can’t have that now can we?
AND YES If I had known then what I know now I never would have gone through with it.
This is why we need better and more precise teaching of science in junior high and high school. Children should be learning about human growth and development in Biology class. They should know who and what their child is without having to be shown on an ultrasound.
My kids have all gone through high school biology courses – they skip over human fetal development like it was some sort of plague. Most of the students don’t seem to notice, but my kids, being pro-life, attempted to inform, and send other students to http://www.ehd.org.
While to many it may seem like the absence of info is all just coincidence, the depth of deception going on is equivalent to racketeering.
I was a young child in the days before Roe v. Wade. But I knew all about what the unborn look like because my mother had a wonderfully detailed baby book that informed me through very detailed drawings. My mother first showed it to me when I was 9 or 10. There were also intrauterine photographs at the time. Ultrasound, though primitive, was also available. I later saw my first ultrasound photo of my younger sister in the womb in 1976. Nowhere in my school days did we study embryonic and fetal development — at least not that I recall. But I knew. I think the truth was relatively easy to discover even back then.
When I was 16 and in high school in 1973, and learned what the Court had decided, I was devastated. Because I knew who (not what) was being destroyed in the womb. I confronted some of my peers who actually cheered the abortion decision. I was scoffed at. I like to believe that it was because they just didn’t know who the unborn are. Knowing makes all the difference.
I find it hard to believe that today with the internet and instant communication, so many people don’t know what an unborn child is. Perhaps in many cases it’s willful blindness. At any rate, education about the unborn is our greatest resource! Chris, it’s a wonderful idea that your children are informing their peers. We have all the tools we need with ultrasound and the internet, but we need to get the word out. It’s the best hope for the future.
My kids have all gone through high school biology courses – they skip over human fetal development like it was some sort of plague.
Seriously?!? Wow, no agenda there or anything. That is appalling.
Well, I remember learning a little bit about human fetal development in grade 11 biology. But I don’t remember exactly how much we learnt or how much time we spent on it.
Exactly. I’d also add that seeing what (WHO!) you may already know about preborn babies growing inside YOU is another degree of astonishing, emotional, and beautiful. Some people lack imagination altogether, so they need to be shown!
Every written is so true. Fetal development can be taught to very young children without harming them.
Perhaps this is because up to 78% of women who see an ultrasound of their babies choose not to have abortions. – whose drug-addled fantasy did this waft in from? Oh, I see, Bachmann claimed that a poll by Focus on the Family found so. What garbage.
Many women who have abortions do not know the truth about fetal development… – and the link for this claim tells us “We never discussed fetal development”
ah, reality. Ultrasound images and reality.
Reality is so powerful. The real images of these little girl and little boy fetuses are amazing and disarming. They are really human, and other humans feel a real connection to them. This real phenomena is called empathy. Ultrasounds facilitate the human reality of empathy. That’s a really positive thing.
With all the talk about graphic photos of abortion victims, I hope people realize the power of ultrasound images and I hope they are ultized more and more.
Ultrasounds facilitate the human reality of empathy.
Unfortunately, Reality is simply unable to feel the same degree of compassion for humans that prolifers do.
“Reality is simply unable to feel the same degree of compassion for humans that prolifers do’ – actually I do, even more than you do :-)
My compassion, my empathy, is for people, those who are members of society, those who inhabit the earth. The ones you lose interest in once they’re beyond diapers and your fetus fetish no longer applies.
Hey, maybe that’s when ‘personhood’ is achieved.
My compassion, my empathy, is for people, those who are members of society, those who inhabit the earth.
Here we go again, “Reality” claiming the womb is another world dimension. Pfft.
The ones you lose interest in once they’re beyond diapers and your fetus fetish no longer applies.
Yeah, once my fetuses were potty-trained, I asked my doctor to abort them because I lost all interest in them.
Goony-goo-goo.
“Goony-goo-goo” – :-)
“My compassion, my empathy, is for people, those who are members of society, those who inhabit the earth.”
This is how power works. Diminish the humanity of those who you decide do not fit in your world view. This is one way to have a better war: define the enemy as sub-human. This is how people justified allowing only men to vote. This is how people justified keeping African-Americans as slaves. This is how people justified treating John Merrick like an animal and dragged him out in front of crowds once enough tickets were sold.
And, right when the human-rights point gets made solidly, “Reality” changes the topic with the ol’ “you don’t care abt them after they are born” dodge.
With the slaves, ppl would say, “It is better for them to be slaves – how will they ever be able to survive on their own?”
Human rights is human rights.
We fought for people not be enslaved for the color of their skin. We fought against people being unable to vote because of their gender, or their color. We fought for women to receive equal pay and equal opportunities, We fought for women being able to control their fertility so they weren’t controlled and restricted by the patriarchy. We are fighting for marriage equality.
We are not about to let these rights and equalities be rolled back.
We are not about to let these rights and equalities be rolled back.
Well, you and your ilk are not the only ones inhabiting this country, Reality. It’s not all about you and yours. There are many, many earthlings who are fighting to save the lives of humans in earth wombs. And we are reproducing prolifers at greater frequencies. Do the math.
Sorry but you can’t abort us all.
Goony-goo-goo – :)
“Well, you and your ilk are not the only ones inhabiting this country, Reality.” – that’s true but neither are you and your ilk.
“It’s not all about you and yours.” – I just wish you would remember that.
“There are many, many earthlings who are fighting to save the lives of humans in earth wombs.” – ‘many, many’ isn’t enough.
“And we are reproducing prolifers at greater frequencies.” – your wishful thinking does not make it so.
First they’re not really humans on Earth, then they ARE real humans on Earth, but we just abandon all care for them once they’re out of diapers.
Whatever, Reality.
I’m having trouble sleeping. Why don’t you tell me another science fiction story about two humans reproducing a non-human organism like you did before to try and justify your atrocities? *yawn*
Sounds to me like you have enough imagination to construct all sorts of vivid and wild fantasies in your head with which to entertain yourself xalisae, because “two humans reproducing a non-human organism” wasn’t said by me. Or does that sort of thing come to you in your dreams? :-)
listen, you friggin’ moron, YOU are the one who dreamed up the scenario, not I:
Since we carry, on average, a few hundred novel genetic mutations relative to our parents, that isn’t shared between us and all other humans, are we still human? If we have a cytologically detectable chromosomal rearrangement, are we still human? How many differences are allowed between two genomes before you can say one is not of the same species as the other? Is an embryo with a unique deletion in one chromosome still human? If an embryo has a unique mutation that makes it infertile as an adult when interbreeding with other members of the species, is it still human?
(you know. That ignorant comment you made up there, that I answered, that made you go all “abandon thread!“. LAST MONTH.)
So then, there should be no issue with showing pregnant women the ultrasound image. Even the abortion providers admit that women can be ambivalent about their abortion choice.
See http://www.northlandfamilyplanning.com/after-abortion-care – especially the emotional wellness tab
Seeing the ultrasound image may help these women in the aftermath. At any rate, it can’t do any harm. It certainly seems less likely to be as emotionally jarring as the first time the woman encounters a picture of an aborted fetus.
Reality wrote:
“actually I do, even more than you do My compassion, my empathy, is for people, those who are members of society, those who inhabit the earth. The ones you lose interest in once they’re beyond diapers and your fetus fetish no longer applies. Hey, maybe that’s when ‘personhood’ is achieved.”
Really? You know then, as a matter of fact that pro-lifers don’t care about the born, that we don’t also advocate for minorities, children, or these with disabilities, nor contribute to local community better programs and charities? Tell me how you can know what each pro-lifer does with their time and whether or not we take the time to care for the born, all powerful and knowing Reality? Just because we don’t follow your pro-choice narrative, doesn’t mean we don’t take care of our own in our communities. Pffft, just another straw-man and red herring argument.
Sleep walking are you xalisae?
That was a quotation in which you will see that each sentence ends with a question mark. It raised questions. So no, I did not say what you claim I did.
I didn’t abandon the thread, you failed to post anything to respond to.
Whatever, old man. Go choke on some petite sirah.
:-)
“My compassion, my empathy, is for people, those who are members of society, those who inhabit the earth.”
….. *insert hysterical laughter* “Reality”, you’re actually claiming to have compassion for another human being. *insert five more minutes of hysterical laughter*
Oh, thanks for that, hon. I needed the laugh.
Please continue to post here. Every time I read one of your comments, I feel so much smarter in comparison. Every time I have had a difficult day, I can read one of your comments, and feel profoundly grateful for one thing— that I am not so unfortunate as to have a brain as horrifically deficient as yours.