South Dakota has become the twelfth state to implement an abortion-ultrasound law. These kinds of laws provide women with an opportunity to see an ultrasound of their unborn children -- a tool long useful in pregnancy centers to persuade women to keep their babies. The measures don't require women considering an abortion to see the ultrasound, but require the abortion practitioner to give mothers a chance to see one if they wish. Read the rest of the story here.
Comment: Seeing a baby in utero offers the mother the chance to see her child move and to hear, via a doppler, the sound of her baby's heart beating. Engaging these two senses, sight and sound, exposes the mother to the humanness of her child and debunks the myth that the fetus is just "tissue": TISSUE does not move or have a beating heart!
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