{"id":56534,"date":"2014-12-01T11:20:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T16:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=56534"},"modified":"2014-11-30T20:25:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T01:25:27","slug":"counselor-prevents-abortion-minded-women-from-seeing-sonograms-of-their-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/counselor-prevents-abortion-minded-women-from-seeing-sonograms-of-their-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Counselor prevents abortion minded women from seeing sonograms of their babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Genetic \u201ccounselors\u201d are\u00a0medical personnel that walk women and their partners\u00a0though testing (usually amniocentesis) to see if their unborn babies have a genetic illness or disability. If a woman is at risk for having a baby with a disability, or if\u00a0they already know that they are pregnant with one, these\u00a0genetic counselors are supposed to be unbiased in helping them decide whether or not to abort. In reality, there are subtle ways that this type of &#8220;counselor&#8221; can influence a woman&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>From one genetic counselor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a counselor, I consider it my job to accompany my patients to everything. The sonographer here at City is a right to lifer. When he knows someone has a positive diagnosis, that they are going to abort, he hands them a photo of the fetus. Imagine being forced to take it, to take that picture, when you know the pregnancy is Down\u2019s, you know you\u2019re going to abort!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Genetic counselor Felicia Arcana<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Abortion proponents and providers know the power of ultrasound, and many of them have the desire to shield women from seeing the truth about their unborn babies. Clearly, this activist doesn\u2019t want the woman to be swayed against abortion. One might think that a woman would want (and a medical professional provide) every single bit of information she can get about her own body and her pregnancy that affects her health and future. But abortion proponents encourage women to make these decisions without seeing their babies\u00a0on an\u00a0ultrasound and knowing the development of their child.<\/p>\n<p>Even if a woman is reluctant to see an ultrasound of her baby, what happens when years down the line she becomes pregnant again, sees <em>that<\/em> ultrasound, and realizes that the &#8220;product of conception\/tissue\/collection of cells&#8221; that she aborted has a face and hands, and little arms and legs? Isn&#8217;t it better to know all the facts when one still has a choice? Because many women discover the truth about how developed their babies were when it is too late for them to take back their abortions. \u00a0Sadly, I have read many such stories and testimonies.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does this counselor believe that women shouldn\u2019t get all the relevant information before having an abortion, she does not trust women\u2019s ability to make decisions for themselves- including the decision of whether or not to accept and look at picture they are offered.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0Rayna Rapp <em>Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America<\/em> (New York: Routledge, 1999)\u00a067<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genetic \u201ccounselors\u201d are\u00a0medical personnel that walk women and their partners\u00a0though testing (usually amniocentesis) to see if their unborn babies have a genetic illness or disability. If a woman is at risk for having a baby with a disability, or if\u00a0they already know that they are pregnant with one, these\u00a0genetic counselors are supposed to be unbiased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":51015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Counselor prevents abortion minded women from seeing sonograms of their babies - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/counselor-prevents-abortion-minded-women-from-seeing-sonograms-of-their-babies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Counselor prevents abortion minded women from seeing sonograms of their babies - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Genetic \u201ccounselors\u201d are\u00a0medical personnel that walk women and their partners\u00a0though testing (usually amniocentesis) to see if their unborn babies have a genetic illness or disability. 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