Why does the visual image of the fetus you are about to abort upset you?

Maybe the fact that the ultrasound would be so upsetting MEANS something. Maybe it’s information women need to have before they make an irreversible decision.

I actually would be MORE supportive of abortion if I knew that a woman viewed her fetus on ultrasound and still felt her decision to abort it was right. I would actually TRUST women more if I knew they could face the real time image of their fetus.

Any woman who can look at her fetus on ultrasound and still abort it is a woman who has truly made an informed decision.

I think if pro-choice proponents could discuss what it is they truly believe is the beginning of life I could better understand their perspective. Do they think abortion is a tragic but justified killing of a baby….like a form of euthanasia? ( I am supportive of euthanasia in many cases) Or do they think that anything before 20-some weeks is not viable so abortion is not really ending a life? What do pro-choice people really think is happening in an abortion? I realize that answers may vary person to person but there must be some collective understanding among pro-choice supporters. My assumption is that they DO NOT believe they are killing a person….but maybe I am wrong.

I hear many women claim to be pro-choice but also describe abortion as “tragic”…”gut wrenching”….”traumatic”…. And these same women feel that an ultrasound prior to an abortion would put the mother through “extreme stress and trauma”. If abortion is NOT killing then why would looking at a fetus be traumatic for the mother (other than having to go through a procedure)? Transvaginal ultrasounds are painless and fast and when performed by a professional they are nothing close to the experience of rape. An abortion is exponentially more invasive and uncomfortable and “rape like” in my opinion. Again, I don’t understand why pro-choice supporters are so against the ultrasound. Why are they so threatened by it? If you believe that abortion is NOT killing then what is the problem with looking at a “collection of cells” on a screen? The message pro-choice supporters are sending is very confusing to me.

I am truly on the fence on this issue. All of my closest friends, mentors and people I look up to are opposed to this bill but I can’t make the leap. I am really having an internal struggle with this. I would deeply appreciate if anyone could offer compassionate (not cutting, please, I’ve received plenty of that already) words to help me reconcile this issue. I am really looking for greater understanding of this issue.

Is abortion euthanasia? Thanks for reading.

That does not mean that we cannot reach out in our private lives to provide whatever support we think necessary. For many of us, that means supporting women’s reproductive autonomy. For another person, it might mean working for an adoption agency to help children to find homes, or working on gender equality issues so that girls all over the world experience less violence at the hands of their families, who prefer male children.

At the government level, we must support the individual autonomy of each and every woman and man. To do otherwise is to go against everything that we consider to be American. At the societal level, we must work toward ending the pressures that work against women, so that we can reduce unwanted pregnancy and eliminate prejudice against women. It all starts with TRUST and KINDNESS.

In a large swath of Asia at this very moment, there is now a huge gender imbalance because women have aborted girl babies by the million, prefering boys. Tragic, sickening, awful.