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Abortion, spiritual conversions, and stimulus money
By: Timothy P. Carney
Examiner Columnist
11/02/09 3:25 PM EST
Passing around the pro-life Twittersphere today is this local news story from Texas, about a director of a local Planned Parenthood branch who underwent what she calls "a spiritual conversion," resigned her job, and joined the local pro-life operation in town. The video is at the bottom of this post. It's an intriguing story in itself, but it has a broader implication because of what spurred the conversion on abortion: she watched the ultra-sound of an unborn baby being aborted.
This anecdote affirms a belief held by most of the pro-lifers I talk with: technology is making it increasingly clear that a fetus is a person, which is making it harder for people to find abortion morally acceptable, especially after the first trimester.
We get this story the same day we hear of this stimulus grant:
GE Global Research in Niskayuna, N.Y., was awarded $1.2 million in federal stimulus money to develop lower-cost ultrasound probes and study ways to make the devices easier to use and interpret.
GE getting lucre from the Obama administration is nothing new, but this stimulus grant could lead to more pregnant mothers seeing their in utero child, which could lead to more anti-abortion opinions.
On the other hand, in my own family, I've noticed that doctors have scheduled ultrasounds before "abortion deadlines" -- presumably trying to root out disabilities before aborting the child gets too complicated. In any event, for this woman, the ultrasound's message breeded a new love for the unborn.
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