“That means something like 400 [pregnant women] have had their life substantially disrupted… “It means that 400 real children at the end of those pregnancies are going to be born into families that may have, at very realistic levels, said that, ‘We can’t afford another mouth to feed,’ or ‘I can’t afford child care.’,”
Bryan Howard, president of Planned Parenthood Arizona, on the drop in abortions by 400 after a pro-life law took effect. A law requiring a medical doctor to perform every abortion and meet with the patient 24 hours before the operation to offer her a chance to see the ultrasound.
Jill Stanek “Abortion numbers down in AZ, but Planned Parenthood still does 90%; laments 400 “real children” who may survive”
HOWARD FISCHER “Cause of abortions drop in state disputed” Yuma Sun Oct. 12, 2011
This quote shows that laws offering women the chance to see an ultrasound of their baby reduce the number of abortions and save children’s lives. This is why Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics usually turned the ultrasound away from women and discourage them from seeing the images. Here we see that Planned Parenthood is unhappy about the babies who have been born alive because of the laws. Whether this unhappiness springs from loss of revenue or from anti-child sentiment is unclear.
