Mugged By Ultrasound
86% of abortion-minded women who see an ultrasound of their baby decide to parent their child instead. I’m sure you have heard this stat several times from pro-life organizations, your church, or a maybe even a politician. But when you are actually in an ultrasound room and experience a mother seeing life in her womb for the first time you are never the same.
Abortion providers know the power of an ultrasound too. Why do you think they strategically turn the ultrasound monitor out of sight from any client seeking an abortion? Generally would never hear such a statement from an abortion provider or even a pro-choice person. However here are a couple examples from a Weekly Standard article that reveal abortionists who are struck head on with the reality of this life in the womb.
“…One of the first doctors to change his allegiance was Paul Jarrett, who quit after only 23 abortions. His turning point came in 1974, when he performed an abortion on a fetus at 14 weeks’ gestation: “As I brought out the rib cage, I looked and saw a tiny, beating heart,” he would recall. “And when I found the head of the baby, I looked squarely in the face of another human being—a human being that I just killed.”
"…When abortionist Lisa Harris was 18 weeks pregnant, she performed a D&E abortion on an 18-week-old fetus. Harris felt her own child kick precisely at the moment that she ripped a fetal leg off with her forceps: Instantly, tears were streaming from my eyes—without me—meaning my conscious brain—even being aware of what was going on. I felt as if my response had come entirely from my body, bypassing my usual cognitive processing completely. A message seemed to travel from my hand and my uterus to my tear ducts. It was an overwhelming feeling—a brutally visceral response—heartfelt and unmediated by my training or my feminist pro-choice politics. It was one of the more raw moments in my life."
Harris concluded her piece by lamenting that the pro-choice movement has left providers to suffer in silence because it has “not owned up to the reality of the fetus, or the reality of fetal parts.”
Immediately, this story brought me to Ezekiel 9:4 “…and the Lord said to him, "Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.". How absurd that a baby in the womb can sense the hideous act of abortion, while some abortionists, such as Dr. Harris, have seen ultrasounds and have been exposed to abortion day after day and are still unmoved. Oh that this nation would be found sighing and crying over abortion and not consenting to have it on demand.
What do you think of these stories? Sound off in the comments.
About the Author
Tiffani Edwards works at the Crisis Pregnancy Center is Phoenix Arizona and is in leadership over the Phoenix House of Prayer. Before living in Az she was on staff with the Justice House of Prayer in Washington, D.C. for almost 4 years. It was while being in D.C. that her passion for governmental intercession and the ending of abortion was birthed.
Matt says:
February 04, 2010 at 12:26PMGreat blog Tiffani! I add Jeremiah 6:13-15 to consider:
13 “From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. 14 They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace. 15 Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush.”