1 Woman at a Time (ultrasound reducing abortions)

Time Magazine ^ | February 15, 207 | NANCY GIBBS

[NYer]

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[Dansong]

Science will continue to be the best friend of the unborn...think of all the things that will be revealed in ten or twenty years

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

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[KoRn]

When my wife found out she was pregnant with our first child she had to get an initial ultrasound. In the few moments that ultrasound lasted she changed forever. It's like we were kids on the way to the doctor's office, and when we left there we were parents.

A law requiring abortion clinics to conduct a thorough ultrasound would change allot of minds. It wouldn't be a violation of "the right to choose", it would be facilitating an informed choice.

[madprof98]

"They talk about the joys of childbirth, which can certainly be a joy," says Melissa Reed, executive director of NARAL's North Carolina chapter, "but they can make a woman feel very intimidated about making any other choice in her life."

Like murder, for example. There's a bill before the General Assembly in Georgia right now to require women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound beforehand and to be given the chance to see it before making up their mind. Needless to say, the abortionists are fighting it at every turn.

[sine_nomine]

This made me cry.

I have been reading about Wilberforce and his tireless crusade against human slavery in England. If the disgrace of slavery burdened England, how much more should abortion weigh down our conscience. It is a disgrace. Life goes on while we slaughter one million or more babies per year, working at making it easier and faster with a human pesticide pill, etc.

What will it take to make our country see how evil we have become?

I applaud these efforts.

[Right Angler]

"Pro choice".... Yeah, right. They are incensed that anyone would dare deny them their sacred sacrifices to their god of self.

[4everontheRight]

Our church partners with a women's center here to help raise money for ultrasound equipment so women can see who it is they are aborting. The majority of women who have the ultrasounds never have the abortion.
Shhhhhh....keep it quiet from Planned Parenthood.

[stayathomemom]

When I was pregnant with my first daughter my husband did an ultrasound on me. The very first thing was saw was her sticking her thumb in her mouth! Interesting thing is she gave up thumb sucking within a few months after she was born - unlike her sister! ;)

[ejroth]

Good article. Surprisingly balanced for "Time"

I just wish that they would have given some space to adoption. An unplanned pregnancy does not have to be a financial burden on anyone. There are plenty of resources to get someone through the pregnancy and then the baby can be given to another family. The waiting list can be years for families who want to adopt. It's sad that we have families going to China and Russia to adopt children. We were very blessed and only waited a year to adopt our youngest son. More attention needs to be given to the ridicules rules and regulations that make adoption more difficult and more expensive than it needs to be.

[Mygirlsmom]

One of our twins stuck her tongue out at us, and was "proud to show us she was a girl" She's a real spitfire - flamboyant and dramatic. You know it when she's in the room! (Shortly after they were born we had a friend snap some pics of the two of them while they were sleeping - when we got them developed, we noticed that in all of the pics she was posed with her middle finger prominently raised)

Her sister kept her gender a secret in utero - she is shy, quiet and introspective. I call them "Oscar and Felix"

[Hildy]

This is the way to do it..not by getting in their faces and calling them baby killers. Not by parading out a bunch of wacked women to tell them how having an abortion ruined their lives. It's called changing hearts and minds. Not the other way around. have to see things for themselves. I've been saying this for years. But people would rather call me names here. So be it.

[Mygirlsmom]

I just wish that they would have given some space to adoption.

I agree!!!! My brother has two absolutely beautiful adopted daughters - both domestic - in fact, they brought each of the girls home from the hospital. Every time I see the girls I say a prayer for those birthmoms - they are heroines of the highest order.

[Stonewall Jackson]

This sounds like a great idea. What do you think?

[xzins]

I don't think it's a balanced article. I think Time is clearly slamming the Counseling Centers and is clearly promoting PP abortion centers.

[Faustian Justice2]

[jer33 3]

Planned Parenthood's Von Unwerth brought in examples of its literature and argued that some of it was misleading and out of date. She points to one brochure that is still in use called "You're Considering an Abortion: What Can Happen to You?" It warns, "Your next baby will be twice as likely to die in the first few months of life" and "After an abortion you may become sterile."

I do know several young women who prematurely delivered their babies and the babies did not survive or are unable to conceive. The common factor in their lives is that they had an abortion(s).

[Carry_Okie]

It is astonishing to me how many churches gloss over the simplest requirments for Christianity, my guess is so as not to "turn off" marginal membership:

Acts 15:20
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

Acts 15:29
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

Acts 21:25
As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

How many "Christian" churches turn a blind eye to fornication? How many even discuss what constitutes adherence to these minimum standards for purity? I doubt ANY of them do it, seeing as "blood pudding" is popular in Europe.

[RockinRight]

THIS is how you end abortion - not by force, but by showing them.