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The
Threat of Ultrasound
By Maureen
Bailey
Last month, on the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade
decision, the Bowie-Crofton Pregnancy Clinic, a suburban Washington,
D.C. crisis pregnancy center (CPC), was the target of "pro-choice"
vandalism. The vandals shattered windows, trashed the clinic waiting
room, and spray-painted the windows and entryway with "liars,"
"choice," and "womyn hater" (the "y" intended to deny any commonality
with "men").
The timing of the crime to coincide with the 32nd anniversary of Roe v.
Wade is interesting. Do centers like the Bowie-Crofton Pregnancy Clinic
threaten Roe?
The Bowie-Crofton clinic, like most CPCs, exists to empower women
experiencing untimely pregnancies, by providing them with resources and
alternatives to abortion. The clinic distributes maternity clothes,
baby clothes, diapers and formula, and provides free pregnancy tests
and counseling services.
The clinic also provides a unique service: free 3D/4D ultrasounds
allowing women to see detailed color images of their unborn babies in
real time. How can the availability of such services, which help women
make a well-informed choice, threaten a court decision that is
purportedly about "choice"?
Of course, these services do not directly affect Roe. Only changes in
the composition of the Supreme Court will do that. But the availability
of services such as sonography does expose the false premises upon
which Roe was built: that the unborn child is only "potential" human
life and that women, to be truly free, must have legal abortion
available to them.
The Roe Court asserted: "We need not resolve the difficult question of
when life begins." It referred to the unborn child as "potential life"
that is unworthy of legal protection until the moment of birth. When a
woman views an ultrasound image of her child, she knows such assertions
are empty. Ultrasound technology shows the child as fully human and
unique, and for that matter rather interesting. A British
ultrasonographer has collected images of unborn children from the 12th
week walking, leaping, stretching and kicking in the womb. Such a
danger to Roe, for women to see their unborn children behaving in such
ways!
The second false premise of Roe is that somehow abortion is needed to
enhance women's rights. In fact, Roe did not elevate women's rights,
but conditioned them. Once Roe made abortion readily available, women
were expected to exercise this "right" to participate fully in society.
There was then no need for society to provide women facing unplanned
pregnancies with resources such as health care and financial support.
Society's answer to these women is abortion. Crisis pregnancy centers,
such as the Bowie-Crofton Pregnancy Clinic, provide women with a
different answer: meaningful resources, so they need not feel forced to
sacrifice the lives of their children.
We must keep working for a society that serves the authentic freedom of
women and welcomes their children before and after birth. Roe v. Wade
is a roadblock on our way to that better society, and so it must be
overturned.
Maureen Bailey is a
public policy analyst with the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities in
the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Reprinted
by permission of The Tidings, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Los
Angeles. The article appeared in The Tidings' Feb. 18, 2005 issue.
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