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Antiabortion Centers Offer Sonograms to Further Cause (The Nerve!)
Washington Post ^ | 9/9/2006 | Michael Alison Chandler

Posted on 09/09/2006 7:02:38 PM PDT by Pyro7480

On June 6, Cheryl Smith took her last $600 and drove her teenage daughter from Baltimore to Severna Park to get an abortion. When they got there, a receptionist told them the clinic had changed hands. The abortion provider had moved a few miles away, she said, but the new clinic would offer a pregnancy test and sonogram for free.

The Smiths stayed. After they saw a picture of the fetus at 21 weeks with arms and legs and a face, their thoughts of termination were gone....

With its ultrasound machine and its location, the Severna Park Pregnancy Clinic demonstrates two of the most important tactics in an intensifying campaign to woo women away from abortion clinics. Antiabortion organizations in recent years have added medical services to hundreds of Christian-oriented pregnancy counseling centers nationwide. Many of these antiabortion clinics have opened in or near places where women go to end pregnancies....

"They can set up a waiting room and an exam room, but that doesn't mean they employ actual medical practices," said Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation, a D.C.-based network of abortion providers....

Abortion rights activists are calling for tighter regulations. They say the antiabortion centers mislead women about the health effects of abortion....

Last year, Allyson Kirk, 24, of Manassas, a student at Northern Virginia Community College, became pregnant.... When Kirk was shown a video depiction of a fetus's head being severed during a surgical abortion, she walked out.

"I was outraged," Kirk said. She recalled saying: "This is horrible. I can't believe you do this to women who are lost and looking for help."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: abortion; center; crisis; pregnancy; prolife; sonogram
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To: CindyDawg

I read some where that that is just part of their revenue and that they receive "fees" for fetuses. I don't know. Maybe others do.



They sure do ,, google on "fetal eyes" and see what you find .. There was a story about a researcher in New Zealand that buys then by the thousands .. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/print.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10350816
the big money is in transplantable organs ,, don't believe a word of it when they save a baby with a liver or heart transplant that it came from a car crash baby or whatever ,, most of the time it is ripped out of a born alive infant at a late term abortion center,,, just ask the "stericycle" truck drivers...

I think it would be a wonderful thing to use as a tool against the abortion industry ,, pass out contracts to women entering the centers for the abortion providers to not sell any part of their baby's ... it won't work in that manner of course but it would definately get the women thinking about the desecration ,, after all part of the thought process that allows them to abort at all is the fantasy that "the child is better off dead" and that somehow it is a "noble" thing to do...


41 posted on 09/10/2006 3:27:03 AM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: Pyro7480; All
Here is the Stealth Bomber flying under the Pro-Choice side's radar:

Bringing Good Things to Life (ULTRASOUND)
Bringing Good Things to Life (ULTRASOUND) · Citizen magazine ^ | June 2003 | Abortion Quotes

Watch GE 3D-4D new Ultrasound Commercial

Fetuses Can Hear Ultrasound Examinations

New Ultrasound Shows 3-D 'Fetal Portrait

Technology forces us to see that abortions end lives

10 FALLACIES IN THE ABORTION DEBATE

12 WEEK OLD BABY WALKS IN THE WOMB!

"Studies show that if women can actually see the baby through an ultrasound, they are more likely to carry them to term," she said.

The Womb as Photo Studio States May Ban Abortion If Roe Overturned

Unborn baby introduces comparison of candidates for President

Partial Birth Abortion Ban Court Transcripts

Foetuses [Fetuses] 'may be conscious long before abortion limit'

ultrasound Technology gives unborn fetus a 3-D image

Crisis Pregnancy Centers Find Success in Medical Model

The most powerful smiles in the world

42 posted on 09/10/2006 4:02:30 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: metmom
George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas has been killing 3rd trimester babies for many years...

...Our 2nd, 3rd trimester Florida babies have been killed in Daytona....I believe the abortionist recently retired..... as he could afford to..

....killing large babies nets lots of money

It's everywhere netmom.

43 posted on 09/10/2006 4:15:00 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: annelizly; Gabz
TO both of you....

You are pro-choice....
Killing a child in the first trimester, is still killing a child.....it's not a blob of tissue.
..it has a heartbeat and brainwaves.

Crisis pregnancy centers already and actively give all information to the women, including sonograms....

..make it easier to put their child for adoption...or keeping the child, including helping the mother find medical assistance, housing, food, basic child needs, etc.

...but they don't and can't force this woman to keep her child.
..they can only present the facts with love and then pray hard.

Your last statement...I don't think any person should be forced to parent a child they don't want to parent...is not even valid.

In this day and age, no one is forced to parent a child.....hospitals even have 'drop off' stations for unwanted children....

...and parents across our nation are begging to adopt unwanted children....

..because someone wants these children!!!!

44 posted on 09/10/2006 4:26:12 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: theBuckwheat

Thanks for the link. What some people do boggles the mind.


45 posted on 09/10/2006 4:39:43 AM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Ever learning . . .)
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To: Pyro7480

**Antiabortion Centers Offer Sonograms to Further Cause**

BTTT! Education is the main tool for fighting abortion in my opinion!


46 posted on 09/10/2006 6:29:41 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: lastchance
"I was outraged," Kirk said. She recalled saying: "This is horrible. I can't believe you do this to women who are lost and looking for help."

Oh, poor thing. Slapped in the fact with your intent to commit infanticide.

Reality hurts, huh? What about the baby inside you?

47 posted on 09/10/2006 6:36:17 AM PDT by Malacoda (Bu**er Islam)
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To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...


48 posted on 09/10/2006 1:49:36 PM PDT by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, geese, algae)
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To: Coleus; nickcarraway; narses; Mr. Silverback; Canticle_of_Deborah; TenthAmendmentChampion; ...

Unborn at five months. A blob of tissue to the Washington Compost and the murderers they support.

Pro-Life PING

Please FreepMail me if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.

49 posted on 09/10/2006 3:51:31 PM PDT by cpforlife.org (A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available at KnightsForLife.org)
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To: cpforlife.org
"They can set up a waiting room and an exam room, but that doesn't mean they employ actual medical practices," said Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation, a D.C.-based network of abortion providers.

I guess in their minds, MURDER is a "medical practice," but sonograms aren't.

50 posted on 09/10/2006 3:53:42 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: Malacoda
"I was outraged," Kirk said. She recalled saying: "This is horrible. I can't believe you do this to women who are lost and looking for help."

Oh, poor thing. Slapped in the fact with your intent to commit infanticide.
Reality hurts, huh?


Yep, why can't everyone just keep pretending that she's not killing a distinct little person so that her feelings aren't hurt? The truth is a pain in the ass, huh? Nothing seems to make the abortionists angrier than being confronted with the reality on their actions. I read once that science fiction author Philip K. Dick said that the greatest hate mail that he ever received was the result on his anti-abortion short story, "The Pre-Persons" (1974).
51 posted on 09/10/2006 4:11:08 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: irishjuggler

Sometimes I absolutely dispair at the state we find the world in.


52 posted on 09/10/2006 5:30:10 PM PDT by Malacoda (Bu**er Islam)
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To: metmom

Never hear of partial birth abortion?


53 posted on 09/10/2006 5:31:55 PM PDT by Lesforlife ("For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . ." Psalm 139:13)
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To: Lesforlife
Never hear of partial birth abortion?

Sure, I just thought that there was a limit to the date at which abortions could be performed.

54 posted on 09/10/2006 6:02:29 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

Sadly, no.

And to think that Supreme Court Justice Alito
voted against the Partial Birth Abortion Ban in
New Jersey to uphold "process" despicable!!


55 posted on 09/10/2006 8:36:47 PM PDT by Lesforlife ("For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . ." Psalm 139:13)
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To: Pyro7480

This is awesome. If more women/girls seeking abortion could see that this is a little tiny human, more abortions can be prevented.


56 posted on 09/10/2006 8:42:11 PM PDT by brwnsuga
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To: Pyro7480
Many of these antiabortion clinics have opened in or near places where women go to end pregnancies kill babies.

Typical WaPo rat bastards ... they never can just tell the unvarnished truth.

57 posted on 09/11/2006 6:03:55 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: metmom
It's obviously Buddhism they are talking about. Buddhists are pro-life.

Must stamp out these pushy Buddhists! ;-)

(or maybe it's an ethical thing, not a religious thing after all??? Nahhhh....Couldn't be...)

59 posted on 09/13/2006 2:57:43 PM PDT by stands2reason (ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
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To: metmom

Try telling liberals that we ought to at the very least view abortion like they do in Europe....

And while they are eagerly agreeing and nodding their heads

Spring the truth on them!!


60 posted on 09/13/2006 3:01:33 PM PDT by stands2reason (ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
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