One of our nurses got a call this week from a fifteen year old girl who was pregnant and seeking a free ultrasound. She was planning to abort and needed an ultrasound to date her pregnancy. (Most abortion clinics don’t give free ultrasounds and they are required for an abortion.) As our nurse was speaking to this girl she could hear the mother yelling in the background such things as, “All we need is an ultrasound!” and “We don’t need anything else from you!"

As our nurse spoke more to the young girl she discovered that the mother was pressuring her to abort. This young girl was asking about many abortion procedures including RU-486. Our nurse on staff shared the dangers of RU-486 and invited her to come and get a free ultrasound at our center.

The next morning the girl came in with her mother and had an ultrasound. During the ultrasound the mother, who was so persistent on the phone about her daughter getting an abortion, started crying. After the ultrasound, the mother said how grateful she was to have “seen the baby” and that she was “given a choice to change her mind about the abortion."

We have had many clients tell us that when they have had an ultrasound at abortion clinics the ultrasound screen is turned away purposely and that even after they ask to see the screen, they are denied.