Regular readers will know my views on abortion (for those who don’t, I’m agin’ it, in all circumstances on all occasions) so will probably be as unsurprised as I am at this report in the New York Times:
"When I had the sonogram and heard the heartbeat – and for me a
heartbeat symbolizes life – after that there was no way I could do it,"
Ms. Brown said recently as she revisited the clinic and watched her
daughter, Elora, now 9 months old, play at her feet.
….
"Generally, their treatment of women who come in is coercive," said
Susanne Martinez, vice president of public policy at the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America. "From the time they walk in to these
centers, they are inundated with information that is propaganda and
that has one goal in mind. And that is to have women continue with
their pregnancies."
Most centers still do not have ultrasound
machines. But at those that do, the results of performing sonograms
have been startling, abortion opponents say. A survey by the Heidi
Group, a Christian evangelical nonprofit organization that advises such
centers on fund-raising and administration, found that those using
counseling alone reported persuading 70 percent of women considering
abortion to abandon the idea. In centers with ultrasound machines, that
number jumped to 90 percent, said Carol Everett, the group’s chief
executive. Such statistics could not be independently verified.
Well, just fancy that. Tell women the truth and they don’t kill their children. Amazing what we can find out in the modern world isn’t it?
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