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One of the abortion movement\u2019s most maddening lies is its claim<\/a> to have a monopoly on unbiased science, a wholly unearned authority<\/a> they use to deceive the public<\/a> on every factual aspect<\/a> of the debate. But while pro-lifers know full well<\/a> that abortion advocates\u2019 devotion to science is phony, it\u2019s actually worse than that:\u00a0abortion advocates hate and fear genuine science, because it reveals the horrifying truth of the \u201cright to choose\u201d that they\u2019d rather hide from the public.<\/p>\n

A new Atlantic piece by Moira Weigel<\/a> embodies that hatred better than anything in recent memory. The publication tweeted out<\/a> the piece with the truly Orwellian summary, \u201cHow the ultrasound pushed the idea that a fetus is a person.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cPushed the idea\u201d? As if ultrasounds somehow perpetuate a false impression? These completely accurate, live, un-doctored images don\u2019t make it seem like<\/em> preborn babies are recognizably human; they reveal<\/em> what is actually there, unfiltered by the biases of any messenger. Weigel writes:<\/p>\n

Doctors do not even call this rapidly dividing cell mass a \u201cfetus\u201d until nine weeks into pregnancy.* Yet, the current debate shows how effectively politicians have used visual technology to redefine what counts as \u201clife.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More know-nothingism. A rose by any other name smells\u00a0just as sweet, and a baby by any other name is just as human. Whether one calls him or her a zygote, embryo, fetus, or baby no more changes<\/a> his or her status as a living human person than whether something is called an infant, toddler, adolescent, adult, or octogenarian.<\/p>\n

And the only one trying to redefine life here is Weigel. As any decent embryologist could explain to her, dozens of mainstream and non-political scientific textbooks, organizations, and experts<\/a>\u00a0clearly confirm that the life of a new human being begins at fertilization, and the science really is settled that three relevant variables to the question\u2014what constitutes an organism (as opposed to an organ or tissue belonging to another organism), how we know it\u2019s alive, and how to classify it as human\u2014have\u00a0settled, unambiguous criteria<\/a>: growth, reproduction, metabolism, response to stimuli, and human DNA distinct from one\u2019s parents.<\/p>\n

Incredibly, Weigel purports that her piece will go on to prove that \u201cscience does not bear\u201d out the \u201cassumption\u201d that \u201can ultrasound image has an obvious meaning.\u201d At the risk of being accused of \u201cmansplaining,\u201d I would suggest that if the meaning is not<\/em> obvious\u2014showing the world that this thing we allow to be destroyed is a child<\/em>, for God\u2019s sake\u2014then one has a far deeper problem beyond the abilities of a single article to work out. She writes:<\/p>\n

The framing of the ultrasound image was notable for what it excluded: the woman. In order to make the fetus visible, it made her disappear [\u2026] Like many other uses of this technology across history, The Heartbeat Protection Act enlarge the fetus in the public eye, while edging women out of the picture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is incredible\u2014the mere act of reminding people that the baby\u2019s there too is considered ignoring the woman. Including is redefined as excluding. If this is not narcissism in its purest and most heinous form, then the word means nothing anymore.<\/p>\n

But this really is abortionism\u2019s true face: selfishness at any cost, even the death of innocents.<\/p>\n

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Weigel goes on to make a passing shot at the possibility of fetal pain (see here<\/a> and here<\/a> for the truth) and attack the accuracy of the famous anti-abortion film The Silent Scream<\/em> (never mind that modern videos far more medically up-to-date<\/a> reveal the same truth), and makes the following point\u2014which inadvertently and hilariously undermines her own premise:<\/p>\n

New \u201cinformed consent\u201d laws and the Congressional \u201cheartbeat bill\u201d follow the same logic that The Silent Scream did. Their sponsors act as if ultrasound images \u201cprove\u201d that a fetus is equivalent to a \u201cbaby,\u201d and that pregnant women only have to be shown ultrasound images in order to draw the same conclusion. But the \u201cheartbeat\u201d made visible via ultrasound does not actually demonstrate any decisive change of state in the cell mass that might become a fetus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s our point exactly! There is no<\/em> decisive change of state after fertilization! From that point on, nothing<\/em> along the fetal development trail<\/a>\u2014not body formation, not heartbeats, not pain sensitivity, not viability, not even birth itself\u2014magically transforms a \u201ccell mass\u201d into a real boy or girl. None of it fundamentally changes the prenate from one kind of entity into another; once he or she exists, he or she already is every bit the living human being you, I, or even Moira Weigel is.<\/p>\n

The ultrasound does not depict a change; it simply takes what was already there, and reveals how recognizable it has become. And yet, to Weigel, \u201cit remains unclear what the popular enthusiasm for fetal images actually means.\u201d The use of imagery to highlight the personhood of victimized groups is not exactly a new phenomenon<\/a> in American history, so it\u2019s stunning that abortion advocates\u00a0completely fail to see how continually playing dumb about the obvious invites some less than flattering historical parallels<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

Weigel also attacks the effectiveness of mandatory ultrasounds at discouraging abortions:<\/p>\n

Research shows that different women react differently to ultrasound images depending on their attitudes toward their pregnancy. While older mothers, and women who have struggled to conceive often express great joy, women who do not desire a child often remain indifferent.\u00a0A 2014 study published by the journal\u00a0Obstetrics and Gynecology<\/a>, which drew on the medical records of nearly 16,000 women seeking abortions, found that viewing an ultrasound had a negligible impact on whether they decided to proceed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a surprise; I addressed that exact same study and presented the real evidence<\/a> back in June 2015. Planned Parenthood sponsored the study, which performed all the ultrasounds in a single Planned Parenthood facility, and Planned Parenthood workers themselves collected all the data and gave it to the \u201cindependent\u201d researchers. Also, the vast majority of the women in the study went in already certain of their decision, so it didn\u2019t even look at how ultrasounds persuade more open-minded women.<\/p>\n

So of course, it should come as no surprise that other sources have reported the opposite findings\u2014for example, a\u00a02011 study<\/a>\u00a0by Quinnipiac University\u2019s Mark Gius found \u201cultrasound laws had a very significant and negative effect on the abortion decision,\u201d and a\u00a02002 report from Massachusetts News<\/a>\u00a0found significant drops reported from a variety of pregnancy centers across the country.<\/p>\n

Finally, a bit of perverse irony: the following<\/a> appears shortly above the tweet of Weigel\u2019s article in the Atlantic\u2019s Twitter feed:<\/p>\n

<\/a>I know the feeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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