The Washington Post Covers Ultrasounds

By plb on September 10, 2006 9:08 AM | No Comments

The Washington Post carries a story about the use of ultrasounds in pregnancy help centers:

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

Makiba Smith, 16, returned to Severna Park Pregnancy Clinic last month with boyfriend Gregory Byrd. On a visit in June, she had planned to get an abortion.

"As soon as I seen that, I was ready. It wasn't no joke. It was real," Makiba Smith, 16, said. "It was like, he's not born to the world yet, but he is inside of me growing."

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The sonogram showed the beating heart, the rib cage, the right hand a tiny fist held close to the face. The fetus yawned, fell asleep, woke up again.

"He's a cutie," the nurse said, taking screen captures of different poses.

"He's fat!" cried Cheryl Smith.

Really, it is hard to argue with the reality of the unborn revealed by technology. However, the Post article does expend a considerable amount of space covering assertions by abortion advocates that CPC's are "deceptive". Susan Olasky (WorldMag Blog) writes:

One misleading bit, though. The reporter writes that crisis pregnancy centers often locate close to abortion clinics and suggests that it's part of a campaign to mislead women. He then describes a young college girl who visits the AAA Women for Choice center in Manassas, Virginia, thinking that she's in an abortion clinic. I googled AAA Women for Choice and discovered that the abortion clinic moved in next door to the pregnancy center, not the other way around. But why let facts get in the way of a story line?