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With the exception of two women in lab coats and a buzzing console next to the chaise lounge, the Enderles’ party was like any other family gathering. Drinks, snacks, friendly banter. Once the machine was ready, though, Kimberly asked husband Jonathon to corral the guests around the two monitors and hit the lights.
Suddenly there was a baby on the screen.
The techs pointed out various body parts while family members speculated on the origins of nose and cheek genes. There was cooing, commentary, and from the 3-year-old big brother-to-be, brutal honesty.
“Looks like a monster,” he said. “I like monsters!”
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wusses. your not a real man till you’ve tasted placenta.
renalin on January 2, 2013 at 11:13 PM
As this is for “entertainment” value, I would suspect that most of these are done well into the pregnancy when many issues are already known and concerns are far, far less. From a prolife perspective, I think this is a good tool and opportunity. As a father I would have loved to have been able to see my children more via ultrasound and so would have my wife if it could have been done and if we could have afforded it. If the mother has no problems exposing her tummy – and perhaps a bit more ( though towels are used to try to cover … I was with my wife for the ultrasounds of all three of our pregnancies ) – what of the fad? Tough cookies prochoicers.
On a tangential note, here in St. Louis there is a prolife organization called Thrive that is providing free ultrasounds. Planned Parenthood isn’t too happy, especially since Thrive has two mobile units, one of which they had been ( still are?) parking legally by planned parenthood’s facility in St. Louis which provides abortions. A mobile unit parked every day in front of your facility and it’s also providing free ultrasounds? The prochoicers are up in arms.
More ultrasounds are good if it means more unborn get to live.
Logus on January 2, 2013 at 11:28 PM
Indeed. http://www.4us.org All we do is raise money to purchase ultrasounds for crisis pregnancy centers.
A woman has about a 98% chance of choosing life if they see their baby on an ultrasound.
29Victor on January 2, 2013 at 11:32 PM
Because of my problem pregnancies, I would not have a party so my family could see one.
I was blessed to be able to see the heartbeat of my first child, who I miscarried a few weeks later.
My child I brought to term I “got” to see at least 6 times In utero…the normal 6 week one, after a sub chorionic hemmorhage and a frantic 60 mile, 98mph trip to the doctor (the pickup wouldn’t go any faster), the next day after passing more blood, 10 days later after bed rest, at 18ish weeks, then multiple times at the end because the little bugger was breech.
However, immediately after reading the beginning this article, I thought how good this will be for the pro-life movement. Argue as much as you like about right or wrong, but there is nothing like seeing the heartbeat 33 days after conception, or the waving hand or the sucking mouth or the grimace on the face…it is a miracle. And we get to see it as never before.
Deride facebook all you want, but people changing their profile pictures to their ultrasound pictures are also going to have a deep pro-life impact.
Change the culture and maybe laws against butchery won’t be necessary.
cptacek on January 3, 2013 at 12:54 AM
When I was a child, my parents used to throw lavish parties where the entertainers were snake charmers, belly dancers, fire eaters, on-weirdess-on. They once had a guy who picked out the 2 fattest (male & female) to stand on his chest while he reclined on a bed of nails. And this was back in the days when fat black people who went out in public were like oddities, thus easily selected. So my birth-to-ten year-old self, roused out of bed in nightgown (but hair made perfect) for the spectacles, now yawn at the spectre of (only semi-bizarre) ultrasound parties.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on January 3, 2013 at 12:55 AM