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Ultra-Sound: The Newest Weapon in the Anti-Abortion Arsenal

By AAN Staff
june 23, 2003  09:37 am
Ultra-Sound: The Newest Weapon in the Anti-Abortion Arsenal
Crisis pregnancy centers are beginning to use the language and technology of modern medicine to help soften their appeal to clients -- but not their anti-abortion aims. Independent Weekly's Barbara Solow looks at how Christian crisis pregnancy centers use ultrasound images of a first trimester fetus to turn women away abortion. "Are pregnancy centers, as their leaders portray them, valuable community service organizations providing women with support and information they can't get elsewhere?" Solow asks. "Or are they, as abortion-rights activists describe them, 'fake clinics' that lure women in with free medical services, then use one-sided information to dissuade them from having abortions?"
View full article at Independent Weekly