[CharlesWayneCT]

An ultrasound is hardly a "medical procedure" as she seems to define it. I love her lack of logic, it's a "medical procedure" (OK, it's done by a doctor), "medical procedures" have risk (OK, some medical procedures are more risky than others), therefore "you shouldn't do "risky" medical procedures (although this procedure isn't "risky").

Anybody know what, if ANY, risks there are to the use of sound waves on the fetus or the mother?

Of course, they are pretending this is to shut down companies who are selling pictures of babies, but it is really targeted at stopping women's health clinics from doing ultrasounds to convince women not to kill their babies. Ultrasounds have made a big dent in the abortion industry, and in the acceptability of abortion in the public.

[CharlesWayneCT]

OK, I see that others have posted the risks. I’ll admit my children are older, so these recent studies were not available when we had ultrasounds. And we did ultrasounds because of medical reasons, not just for the fun of it.

Of course, if the woman is thinking about aborting a baby, there’s really no harm in doing an ultrasound.