In an article in the Weekly Standard, the author says:
Two pro-choice leaders, Kate Michelman and Frances Kissling, acknowledged three years ago that “antiabortionists” had gained a significant advantage. Supporters of abortion, they wrote in the Los Angeles Times, “have had a hard time dealing with the increased visibility of the fetus.” To “regain the moral high ground,” they must deal with “a world that is radically changed from 1973,” when the Roe v. Wadedecision legalized abortion nationwide.
They are referring to pictures like the one below, which shows an unborn baby in the first trimester, the time when most abortions are performed
It is obvious that these images change hearts and minds, and pro-choice activists can no longer get away with arguing that the unborn baby is a clump of cells or blob of tissue. People can see the evidence with their own eyes. In fact, according to the article, 80 to 90 percent of the women who have sonograms at pregnancy centers choose to have their baby.
Perhaps this is why there is such a campaign against crisis pregnancy centers by pro-choicers who want to shut them down or at least deny them access to ultrasound machines. Pro-choice organizations bitterly fight laws that would require a woman to be offered the chance to view an ultrasound before her abortion.
Fred Barnes “Hidden Persuaders: The unheralded gains of the pro-life movement” The Weekly Standard NOV 7, 2011
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