Robert H Blank explains why the pro-choice movement has a harder time convincing the public that abortion is okay:
“Until the recent decades the fetus in utero could not take on the social recognition of a human except conceptually… One of the most critical elements of recognition is visualization. Only in the last 10 years has it been possible to visualize the fetus in utero through sophisticated electronic equipment. As ultrasound technology has advanced to produce more explicit real-time images of the fetal limbs and movement, it is reasonable to expect the tendency to perceive the fetus as a small baby instead of an unseen organism residing in the womb.”
Robert H Blank Fetal Protection in the Workplace: Women’s Rights, Business Interests, and the Unborn (New York: Columbia University press, 1993) 8 – 9
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