NCCB Lobbies White House on Embryonic Stem Cell Research

“Prenatal Peek” Giving Women Second Thoughts About Having Abortion

by Rusty Pugh

(AgapePress) – A pro-life group says abortion advocates do not want women to see an ultrasound picture of their baby because chances are it will change their mind about ending the baby’s life.

Recent studies indicate that between 60 and 90% of women who had planned to abort their baby changed their mind after viewing a sonogram in a doctor’s office. Ultrasound technology allows a fairly detailed view inside the womb — a prenatal peek at the baby’s moving limbs, beating heart and other organs.

American Life League spokeswoman Loretta Hanley says Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups do not want women to have that option because they know that actually seeing the living child inside the womb will probably make them reconsider.

“It does in fact allow the mother to see exactly what she is doing,” Hanley says. “And any one of us can see that in seeing your own child — especially the heart beat, a lot of times they point out the kidneys and so on and so forth — I would think the change of heart would be immense.”

“When we had the pictures in the New York subways of the baby at eight weeks, we had calls from people left and right who said, ‘I never realized that a child looked like that in the womb at only eight weeks,’” Hanley says. “So there’s just a picture of a child at eight weeks and that changed their mind. I can’t imagine the amount or the percentage of women who would change their minds after seeing their child on the ultrasound.”

Hanley says pro-abortion groups will stop at nothing to make sure women do not have a real choice. Their agenda is to promote contraception, which in turn encourages more recreational sex, which leads to more abortions, which is where their profit lies.


(This update courtesy of Agape Press.)


Special to e3mil

The National Conference of Catholic Bishops wants the White House to bar government funding for embryonic stem cell research. Conference spokesman Richard Doerflinger says it is immoral to destroy human embryos, even if their cells might help treat or cure disease.

Doerflinger appeared on Fox News Sunday with former Senator Connie Mack, who argued that the government should fund research on unwanted embryos that would be disposed of otherwise. But Doerflinger said taxpayer funds should be used instead to conduct research on adult stem cells or those drawn from umbilical cords.

Senate Republican leader Trent Lott told NBC’s Meet the Press that he sees “great potential” for embryonic stem cell research, but he stopped short of endorsing federal funding.

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