{"id":65202,"date":"2015-06-23T11:10:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T15:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=65202"},"modified":"2015-06-24T10:29:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T14:29:39","slug":"abortions-decline-planned-parenthood-cant-honestly-deny-ultrasounds-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortions-decline-planned-parenthood-cant-honestly-deny-ultrasounds-power\/","title":{"rendered":"As abortions decline, Planned Parenthood can&#8217;t (honestly) deny ultrasounds&#8217; power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Recently, the <em>Denver Post<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/perspective\/ci_28300703\/kafer-ultrasounds-role-decline-abortions\">ran a piece by Krista Kafer<\/a> exploring the part ultrasounds have played in the abortion rate dropping 10% nationally since 2010 and 9% in Colorado:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Obstetrician Ian Donald, one of the pioneers of the clinical ultrasound back in the 1950s, understood the implications of his invention: The ultrasound humanizes the hidden form of the unborn child. Donald rejoiced in how the images forged an emotional connection between a mother and the child within her.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a message Vicki Cowart, Rocky Mountains Planned Parenthood president, cannot abide. On June 20, she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/opinion\/ci_28339523\/ultrasounds-not-factor-abortions\">responded<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The recent Associated Press report on declining abortion rates proves that states with fewer abortion restrictions saw the sharpest decline, while states hostile to women&#8217;s health actually saw rates increase.<\/p>\n<p>It proved <a href=\"\/news\/abortions-drop-almost-every-state-new-survey-shows\/\">nothing of the kind<\/a>. For one thing, there were only two states with increases, and those were attributed to out-of-staters whose home states just restricted abortion. For another, pro-life states averaged a nearly 15% drop, which is sharper than the overall decline of 12%.<\/p>\n<p>At best, she can point to the fact that \u201cfive of the six states with the biggest declines\u2026passed no recent laws to restrict abortion clinics or providers,\u201d but that neither erases the declines in pro-life states nor shows that pro-abortion policy somehow deserves <em>credit<\/em> for the numbers (some credit contraception for the declines, conveniently forgetting <a href=\"\/news\/the-unabashed-ethical-bankruptcy-of-pro-abortion-doctors\/\">all the evidence<\/a> to the contrary).<\/p>\n<p>Further, as Dr. Michael New <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/419483\/abortion-decline-ap-study\">points out<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Abortion reporting standards vary greatly across states. <em>[MD, NJ, NH, WY, and the populous pro-abortion California don\u2019t compile data at all \u2013 CF] <\/em>Sometimes reported decreases are caused by less rigorous reporting rather than actual declines in the incidence of abortion. Secondly, the AP piece\u2019s analysis would have been better if it had focused on abortion rates rather than the overall number of abortions, since some of the fluctuations in abortion numbers might have been affected by changes in population or demographics.<\/p>\n<p>Next, Cowart claims:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In a 2014 study published in Obstetrics and Gynecology, researchers analyzed 15,575 abortion visits in 2011. All patients received an ultrasound, and all had the opportunity to view the image. Only 42 percent of the women chose to look, yet about 98 percent went on to have an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>What she left out: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/do-ultrasounds-save-lives-new-study-claims-no.-pro-life-experts-says-yesbut\">her parent company, Planned Parenthood, sponsored the study<\/a>. What a surprise that it found the outcome most profitable to them.\u00a0Consequently, both the study and the reporting on it are more than a little misleading. First, all the ultrasounds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/368516\/media-misleads-recent-ultrasound-study-michael-new\">were performed<\/a> in a single Planned Parenthood clinic, and the researchers didn\u2019t directly collect any of the resulting data\u2014PP personnel gave it to them, and they just accepted it without reviewing it themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the study claims that 98.4% of women who saw ultrasounds chose abortion and only 1.6% chose life, <a href=\"\/news\/slate-admits-sonograms-change-minds\/\">but the vast majority<\/a> of those women said going in that they felt \u201cclear and confident\u201d about their decision to abort, while only 7.4% began with \u201cmedium\u201d or \u201clow\u201d certainty about their decision. So a more comprehensive breakdown of the exact numbers would show a more substantial pro-life effect among women who are conflicted or open-minded about their decision.<\/p>\n<p>Third, consider that women who\u2019ve already scheduled abortions aren\u2019t a perfect analogue to all persuadable women. While it\u2019s just as important they see an ultrasound because any life saved is worth it, the impact is strongest on the undecided\u2014women who are seeking treatment before they\u2019ve made a decision, who\u2019ve seen the images on TV, in print, ads, or social media.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, if ultrasounds are so ineffective, then why are they so scared of simply flipping the screen around and showing their patients the images <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abort73.com\/blog\/transvaginal_ultrasound_and_the_fallacy_of_control\/\">they&#8217;re already scanning for anyway<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, many others have found just the opposite\u2014for instance, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.na-businesspress.com\/JABE\/GiusM_Web12_5_.pdf\">2011 study<\/a> by Quinnipiac University\u2019s Mark Gius found \u201cultrasound laws had a very significant and negative effect on the abortion decision,\u201d mobile medical clinic nonprofit ICU mobile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/pro-life-movements-newest-strategy-mobile-ultrasound-vehicle-97002\/\">says<\/a> that \u201c56.4 percent of those who have already decided to have an abortion choose life, and 87.8 percent who are considering an abortion choose life,\u201d and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massnews.com\/2002_editions\/01_Jan\/12302preg.htm\">2002 report from Massachusetts News<\/a> found significant drops reported from a variety of pregnancy centers across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Cowart closes with an emotional appeal from an anonymous Texas woman who \u201cfully understood the significance of being pregnant\u201d:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I could see evidence of the growing life inside of me as my body changed with my pregnancy. I did not need legislators to try to force me to confront an image on the ultrasound. Honestly, my imagined vision of my child was way more significant than the grainy image on the ultrasound screen and the kicks I felt were much more real than the heartbeat I heard during the ultrasound. Yet, I still chose to end my pregnancy because I love my own life and I wanted a child who would be able to live a full life and not die during delivery or a few hours after birth.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently she thought it was a good idea to go out of her way to draw attention to the fact that she <em>knows<\/em> that what her business destroys is a \u201cgrowing life\u201d and a \u201cchild.\u201d Seriously, how is it that so many people who defend abortion <em>professionally<\/em> keep falling into this trap? Not to mention the obligatory default to a wanted baby aborted for some severe medical complication\u2014i.e., a case hand-picked to be less affected by an ultrasound than the average abortion on every level.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, America, ultrasounds are most certainly a factor in declining abortions. 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