Anti-Abortion Groups Perform Live Ultrasounds At A School, Church, State Capitol Near You
LatestSeveral anti-abortion groups performed a series of live ultrasounds on stage in the Congressional Auditorium on Thursday to “covert people into opposing abortion” —and for all you fans of watching live ultrasounds! Woo! Who brought lighters?
The campaign invited all 535 members of Congress to witness pregnant women stepping up on stage, one after another, to have their live ultrasounds projected onto a giant screen and described for the audience. Only four lawmakers showed up, since the event happened to coincide with House floor debates on a major anti-abortion bill.
Republican Presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) sent her legislative assistant Renee Doyle to the event to promote the mandatory ultrasound bill Bachmann introduced last week, which would force women in the early stages of pregnancy to have a physically invasive ultrasound procedure and listen to the fetal heartbeat before they can legally consent to having an abortion.
“The beauty of this bill is that the [ultrasound] image will speak for itself, and once a mother sees the image there’s an immediate connection,” Doyle told the audience. “And anecdotally and statistically, you can see that a mother will choose life, and when a mother chooses life, she also, her heart changes too, and when her heart changes she becomes a proponent of life.”
This is so great because we really needed yet another person implying that women are so stupid that they don’t realize what an abortion actually is until they hear the heartbeat! Without that it’s a very easy decision that women take as lightly as whether or not to eat blueberry or strawberry yogurt at lunch.