Moving pictures

Abortion | Young mothers describe how ultrasound technology persuaded them to choose life for their children | Lynn Vincent

It’s no wonder private and nonprofit funding programs such as Focus on the Family’s “Option Ultrasound” push to equip crisis pregnancy centers with sonogram technology: Eight in 10 centers report that “abortion-minded” women decide to keep their babies after seeing ultrasound images. WORLD interviewed three ultrasound converts to learn what they had in common, how they were different from each other—and why moving pictures changed their minds.

A hurricane and a heartbeat

Raised in a Bible-teaching church, Andrea Brown knew right from wrong. But a personal struggle triggered a spiritual one: “I was doubting God, questioning my faith,” said the 25-year-old Cheverly, Md., medical assistant. “I was still putting on this façade at church that I was still serious about God. But I was living a double life.”