"If one of your daughters was pregnant, would you force her to have the baby?" a student asked during one of my high school pro-life presentations as a speaker for Pennsylvanians for Human Life.
Without hesitation I replied that I knew better than to try and force any of my children to do anything.
"I would tell my daughter everything about fetal development and post-abortion syndrome that I just told you," I said to the high school senior. "And, I would insist that she have an ultrasound."
For only a view into one's womb makes the decision to abort an embryo/fetus/baby an informed one, I explained.
With that in mind, news of Sen. Sam Brownback's introduction of the Ultrasound Informed Consent Act (S. 2075)to the U.S. Senate last week made my day. (Hattip: Grassfire.org)
As its title explains, the Ultrasound Informed Consent Act is "A bill to ensure that women seeking an abortion receive an ultrasound and the opportunity to review the ultrasound before giving informed consent to receive an abortion."
Passage of this bill will save babies lives and serve their mothers' best interests. For sonogram views into the womb will finally put the "you're-aborting-a-blob-of-tissue" myth to rest.
Both the National Right to Life Committee and Grassfire.org offer means to contact legislators, here and here, if you wish to voice how you feel about women blindly walking into abortion.
(c) 2007 Marybeth T. Hagan
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