[JohnHuang2]

Monday, May 27, 2002

Quote of the Day by Avoiding_Sulla

[HiTech RedNeck]

This is the website referred to in the article:

http://www.gemedicalsystems.com/rad/us/4d/index.html

It doesn't have the commercial referred to (as far as I can tell). It does have some promotional material for the machine. The machine colors the images, which are so good they look like TV.

[Salvation]

Sign this petition to stop abortions.

[SuziQ]

But many women with whom I've spoken profoundly regret deciding to have an abortion and say their choice would have been different had they seen the person most directly affected by the procedure.

We were fortunate enough to be able to help our local crisis pregnancy center buy an ultrasound machine and a friend of ours is one of the nurses who runs it. I think it would be a rare thing for a woman to actually SEE her baby then decide to have an abortion. I haven't seen this commercial, but I expect to get fahklempt when I do!

[davidosborne]

PRO-life pings !!

[Jim Noble]

>>Does the baby's status change because the parents love him or her and want their child to be delivered safely so they can hold in their arms what the mother now holds in her womb?<<

According to the law, it's worse than that.

If your mother (not your parents) wants you dead, you die. Period.

I have the feeling that this "legal" reality is much more destabilizing, psychologically, than we have so far recognized.

It is not a coincidence that legal maneuvers to immunize women from the consequences of their actions (the 'battered woman" defense, in particular) have arisen after 1972. The Father G-d of the Old and New Testament was a Creator who did not allow us to kill each other. The Mother god of Roe v. Wade is Shiva under the mask, and we must be very, very careful not to displease her.

[Our man in washington]

What GE has done is made a difficult choice for women more difficult. Women who come into abortion clinics have already agonized for days if not weeks about whether to bring a child into the world, and forcing the woman to see the fetus will only make a difficult decision tougher.

If forced to see images, women will be forced to bear a great emotional burden for having an abortion. Society should be working to make it as easy as possible for a woman to choose to do what she chooses.

GE's product will lead to emotional cruelty against women. If a woman was pregnant because she was raped, for example, the image of her fetus will make her experience the rape all over again.

It's time for those who support women's rights to bring a national boycott against GE. GE is aiding those who want to bring women back to the dark ages.

(Okay, okay, now hold those flames. I don't believe a word of the junk I wrote in the top four paragraphs. I just wanted to give a taste of how leftists are going to argue this one.)

[Timesink]

I've seen that ad. I think it makes the fetus look like something out of one of the "Alien" movies. It's creepy.

[Steve0113]

The quality of the picture is astonishing.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Proud to be a G. E. Medical supplier of electronic assemblies! Hope they ask us to make some of these circuit boards some day.

[Aquinasfan]

I can tell you from the inside of a CPC that women who "see their baby" have an 80-90% turnaround rate vs. a turnaround rate of 15% for those women who only receive traditional counseling.

It was a struggle for our CPC to obtain a machine for $20k. $140k is beyond the pale, but not beyond the grace of God.