Category: Ultrasound Quotes

A woman who had an unexpected pregnancy and had tentatively decided to carry to term, but still was unsure, had her whole mindset changed by seeing her baby on the ultrasound.

“Unfortunately, she says, her maternal instincts did not respond to reason: when a young friend placed her baby in her arms, she found herself looking with distaste into “a little scrunched face inspiring no tenderness, only intense tedium at the thought of tending him. What was I going to do with a baby I couldn’t return to his mother?” She arranged to have an amniocentesis… though she was not sure – despite her reservations – what it would cost her emotionally to have an abortion if something went wrong. When told she had as much chance of having a miscarriage from the amniocentesis as she did, at her age, of having a Down syndrome child, she hoped for the miscarriage: “That is until, lying on the table where the procedure was to take place, I saw the ultrasound scan on a television monitor above me reveal the perfectly shaped head of the child I carried. I wanted that baby!”

Faith Abbott “A Tale of Two Women” Human Life Review Spring 1993

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Autumn Williams was planning on abortion, but changed her mind when she saw her child on the ultrasound. She tells her story:

My mind was set on abortion. Finding out I was pregnant a week before leaving for college was devastating. I was mad at my boyfriend, my parents, myself, this baby. Most of all, I was angry with God, for taking away my hard work, my freedom, college, and my reputation. I had a 5 year plan and I wasn’t going to let it get away from me that quickly….

I was sure I’d only be a couple of weeks along; it would be easy to go through with the procedure if that was the case. As I lay on the ultrasound table I was sure not to look as the technician was scanning, I just wanted it to be over, and only thing in my mind was my 5-year plan [for her future life, which would be destroyed by having the baby]. The nurse asked me if I wanted to know the gender. Before I could answer, or question what she was talking about she slowly turned the screen and she said “It’s a boy”. My eyes fixated on the baby’s profile, a boy, my son. I was six and a half months pregnant…

To this day, I thank [God] every day for finding out when I did, it saved my son’s life. I couldn’t imagine a life without him.”

She later started a pro-life crisis pregnancy center.

Autumn Williams “I Can’t Imagine My Life Without Him” March for Life 2016: Year Round Guide ebook

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Tom Kertcher wrote:

“ICU Mobile, based in Akron, OH, provided ultrasounds for 1,389 pregnant women. 613 of these women were “abortion minded.” Out of the 613 abortion vulnerable women, 533 or 89.9%, made a decision for life against aborting their child.”

Tom Kertcher “More than 90% of women change their minds about having an abortion after seeing an ultrasound, Rachel Campos-Duffy says” Politifact, June 12, 2013, p 4

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An article on crisis pregnancy centers said:

…the results of performing sonograms have been startling, abortion opponents say. A survey by the Heidi Group, a Christian evangelical nonprofit organization that advises such centers on fund-raising and administration, found that those using counseling alone reported persuading 70 percent of women considering abortion to abandon the idea. In centers with ultrasound machines, that number jumped to 90 percent, said Carol Everett, the group’s chief executive.

Ms. Palumbo, director of another cpc, always weighed in:

About 45 percent of women who test positive for pregnancy at the Bowie center are “abortion-minded,” Ms. Palumbo, the center’s director said. The use of ultrasounds has convinced 50 to 75 percent of those women to change their minds, Ms. Palumbo said.

NARAL Pro-Choice America fights tooth and nail against laws that would require abortion clinics to show the sonogram to women. NARAL even spends untold amounts of money fighting in court against laws that say the clinic must only ask the woman if she wants to see it.

Nancy Keenan, president of Naral Pro-Choice America, says:

“With or without ultrasound women understand the moral dimensions of their choices.”

NEELA BANERJEE “Church Groups Turn to Sonogram to Turn Women From Abortions” New York Times February 2, 2005

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Andrea Brown wanted to have an abortion until she went to the crisis pregnancy center Bowie Crofton Pregnancy Center and Medical Clinic and was given an ultrasound.

“When I had the sonogram and heard the heartbeat – and for me a heartbeat symbolizes life – after that there was no way I could do it.”

NEELA BANERJEE “Church Groups Turn to Sonogram to Turn Women From Abortions” New York Times February 2, 2005

A preborn baby’s heart begins to beat as early as 16 days after conception.

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A woman went to Planned Parenthood to get an abortion, partly due to health problems she had. But she saw her baby on the ultrasound:

“I had convinced myself at first to get an abortion.  I talked myself into it thinking it was justifiable because of my injuries and how hard it would be on me.  And the list of how easy it would be on me was long if I just got an abortion.”

Planned Parenthood allowed her to see the sonogram image of her 10 week old baby. Perhaps the law in her state required her to be shown the ultrasound:

“After first visiting an Ob/gyn, I went to one appointment at Planned Parenthood, without telling anyone I was going.  At the first appointment, I was 10 weeks along.  They performed an ultrasound and I saw the baby — I saw that at just 10 weeks, she looked human. …I made the follow up appointment for a couple days later to have the “procedure done.”

She went back to the abortion clinic twice, but each time returned home without having the abortion. Finally, she decided to keep her baby after looking again at the printed ultrasound picture:

“I looked at the ultrasound photo from three days prior, saw the little human, and just started to cry.

I realized I had made so many “me” and “I” statements.  I am poor, living on V.A. disability.  I found a bunch of reasons to not have this baby.  But as I sat there, I realized I made a choice to have sex — the baby did not ask to be here.  At that moment, I realized, “Who am I to pick which of my kids lives and which one dies?”  It wasn’t as simple as a “procedure,” and that was the thing — I was going to kill a baby.  The baby has a heartbeat, a face, fingers and toes.”

She named her daughter Alexia Grace.

LAUREN LEE  “I Was on the Way to the Abortion Clinic to Abort My Baby, Then This Happened” LifeNews  SEP 22, 2014

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In a book on abortion, one pro-choice man was surprised to see his baby on ultrasound:

“I must say, seeing Edward on the ultrasound screen at 12 weeks’ pregnancy did make me think again about abortion. It certainly presents you with rigid evidence of the living reality of the unborn child.”

From the author:

“He is still, he says, not antiabortion. But he is now in little doubt of what exactly it entails.”

Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 294

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