Big Abortion is scared. They’re scared to death that America is slowly trending towards life. They’re scared of the hundreds of thousands of people who march on Washington every year. They’re scared of the wonderful, prayerful and effective 40 Days for Life vigils outside abortion clinics across the country. But mostly they’re scared of science.
So they’ve sought to silence pro-lifers. Heck, they’ve trained the media as their attack dogs so well that we’re not even called pro-lifers. We’re anti-abortionists. Big Abortion has sought to legally institute bubble zones and “no speech” zones around clinics. They try to mocking the effectiveness of abstinence to diminish it. They desperately seek to hinder the ability of pro-lifers to speak with abortion minded women.
But mostly they seek to prevent women from seeing their babies in ultrasounds because they know that a woman who looks at an ultrasound will recognize the humanity of the unborn child within her womb.
West Virginia and Utah may be joining a number of states in calling for abortion minded women to at least have the option view an ultrasound of their baby.
This, of course, has rankled and distressed many pro-choicers including Democrat Barbara Fleischauer of the West Virginia House who said that the bill “reminds me of potty training…when you take somebody’s nose and rub it in the poop.”
Firstly, I’m glad I’m not one of her kids. Secondly, I’m assuming the baby is the “poop” in this lovely metaphor, something to be scooped up and tossed?
Fleischauer continued by saying that with the legislation, “we are basically trying as much as we can to force-feed information to women who are supposedly ... capable of independent thought.”
But isn’t it good to give more information to women? When did independent thought mean uninformed? When did giving as little information as possible become a goal in making medical decisions.
The real reason for the outlandish attacks against these laws is that the ultrasound is the greatest life saving tool we have. No longer can pro-choicers get away with calling a baby a “blob of tissue.” Image Clear Ultrasound operates seven motor home-based ultrasound clinics around the country. Their website makes the startling claim that “at least 80 percent of abortion-minded women change their minds when they see their unborn baby on ultrasound.”
We all know of the recent pro-life conversion of Planned Parenthood Director Abby Johnson after watching an abortion on an ultrasound.
The Reproductive Health Reality Check website called ultrasound laws “a wasteful, bullying tactic.”
Columbia Law Professor Carol Sanger, called the ultrasound laws “another weapon in the arsenal of anti-abortion forces.”
The Portland Mercury wrote: “This sounds like a terrible joke. Sure, it’s still legal to have an abortion, but first you must STARE YOUR FETUS IN ITS TINY UNFORMED FACE! Aaaghhh!”
Vince Hall, vice president of communications with Planned Parenthood San Diego, critiqued in the mobile ultrasound clinics by saying, “It’s misleading and it’s unethical to advertise yourself as a quasimedical resource center when your entire operation is guided by only one thing.”
Yes. We all hate those clinics that are guided by the one principle of saving lives.
The abortion industry is so scared to death of ultrasounds that their only hope of profiting from death is to not have abortion minded women unwittingly walk into a crisis pregnancy center. In order to ensure that, Big Abortion is bullying cities to pass laws forcing crisis pregnancy centers to have signs stating that they don’t perform abortions.
LifesiteNews reported yesterday that pro-lifers handed out coupons for free ultrasounds to women entering abortion clinics to great effect in Kentucky and Michigan.
The choices are clear. Pro-lifers are embracing science while pro-choicers are still trying to turn out the lights. We’re winning. Not fast enough for anyone. But we’re winning. And they’re scared.
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Thank you, Mr. Archbold.
It is amazing that PP who purports to support a woman’s right to CHOICE fights it tooth and claw.
I thank you for tying it in to science that way……the next time someone tells me that faith and science don’t mix, I’ll be sure to correct them – “Abortion and science don’t mix.”
Speaking of science, with the commercial debut of GE’s Vscan technology, ultrasounds are about to get way more portable and cheaper. The Vscan is about the size of a cell phone so when these things go out no longer will the woman even need to visit a crisis pregnancy center to get one, the sidewalk counselor can provide one on the spot. hooked up to a laptop, the counselor can even record a video of the baby for the woman. The future of ultrasound looks bright and the abortion industry is rightfully scared because of it.
While the Vscan is promising technology and one that I hope will be used outside of every abortion mill, I imagine that it will still require a trained technician or nurse as regular ultrasounds do.
Thank God for His powerful amunition in this Battle for Life.
Informative article. At Optionsunited.com we are providing adoption as a solution - it will take effort to get a good image out there regarding adoption but it is a message to often left aside.
Wait a minute, here.
You are saying gub’mint mandated healthcare works?
How ‘bout them apples!
Fleischauer is a metaphool.
GE, they bring good things to Life.
I’m prolife and try to read both sides of the debate. This article mentions Reality Check - wow, there’s a scary organization.
Remember how they howled about graphic photos of baby body parts? Now it’s too much information? Please - this is one truth that will free the “debate” from any doubt as to who is afraid of science and why! Ka-ching!
Pat, a thought provoking article – thank you! Here’s what it did to me:
1) Your report “In order to ensure that, Big Abortion is bullying cities to pass laws forcing crisis pregnancy centers to have signs stating that they don’t perform abortions” suggests a counter strategy: invoke Tip O’Neil’s “all politics is local” and get local pro-lifers in such cities to demand an easily visible sign on Planned Parenthood stating something like “At least 50% arriving for surgery here do not come out alive”. Far from being ‘tit for tat’, it gives opportunity to get the local public to see/discuss the revealing ultrasound proof that real human lives are slaughtered at Planned Parenthood. Just the potential for such LOCAL debate could well deter PP’s bullying City Council!
2) Revisiting John Paul II’s Encyclical, Evangelium Vitae (Gospel of Life), we find these two highly valuable points in EV 99, the latter one raising a question:
a) Regarding eternity-status for an aborted baby, PJP II assures women who procured an abortion: “To the same Father and to his mercy you can with sure hope entrust your child”. We know that Good and Just God never condemns anyone incapable of committing personal sin, such as babies.
b) again, PJP II: “With the friendly and expert help and advice of other people, and as a result of your own painful experience, you can be among the most eloquent defenders of everyone’s right to life.” Is this a recognized founding basis for “Silent No More”?
3) From you, Pat: “We’re winning. Not fast enough for anyone. But we’re winning. And they’re scared.” Good news! Yet, we CAN easily go “faster” by expanding also the spiritual tools needed to improve pro-life strategy by employing the combined Respect Life + Respect God approach which requires inculcation of the following elements:
#1) respect for God’s Personal Rights over His embryos (for we humans can empathize with Jesus’ Personal Treasures since we want others to respect our personal treasures, our property), #2) emphasis on one’s personal relationship with Jesus (absolutely crucial but little heard in Catholic settings ), #3) openly taking account of peoples’ real & sinless doubts about early personhood – doubts often leading to rationalizing an abortion under great pressure if one focuses first on life (whose soul-status is what is doubted!), and #4) educating believers to focus first on God and God’s Rights only in order to avoid succumbing to doubts under stress.
Note that 4) does not mean Respect Life is second; it means that when tempted to abort that we should, as for other occasions of sin, think first of God and Mary.
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