Pro-life photography

Ultrasound technology is coming to shopping malls, and it could radically change the abortion debate | Gene Edward Veith

The most eloquent and unanswerable argument against abortion is surely an ultrasound picture of the baby in the womb.

This technology, using high-frequency sound waves that create a visual scan of the developing child, shows the unborn baby sucking his thumb, moving around, sneezing, making faces, and doing other things identical to what babies out of the womb do. No one who sees an ultrasound picture can deny in good faith that what she is seeing is not just a "fetus," but a baby.

The first ultrasounds were primitive, producing a flat, grainy, black-and-white image. These were persuasive enough of the unborn baby's humanity. But now a new generation of ultrasound scanners is giving highly realistic, photograph-quality images.

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September 28, 2002, Vol. 17, No. 37

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