A Glimpse of Life
Many pro-life leaders cite improvements in ultrasound technology and increased accessibility to the machines as key reasons for a growing awareness that it is a human life that is being taken in an abortion.
“If wombs had windows, people would be much more reticent to abort babies because they would be forced to confront the evident humanity of the baby from very early gestation onward,” ERLC President Richard Land says, explaining that sonograms provide such a “window into the womb.”
“Pregnant mothers who see their babies on sonograms are going to be far more likely to carry their baby to term,” Land continues. “These ultrasound machines will save babies’ lives.”
Saving Lives Through Sonograms
Most women in a crisis pregnancy who are given a glimpse of the life within them choose life, but this is only possible when women can go to a pregnancy resource center with an ultrasound machine. Sonogram machines are expensive, however, and most crisis pregnancy resource centers do not have the funds to buy the equipment or have a medical expert on staff to "read" the output.
There are many ways to be a Champion for Life, and one of them is providing a woman in a crisis pregnancy a “window” into the world of the child she is carrying. This is the intent of the Psalm 139 Project—to aid pregnancy resource centers in securing ultrasound machines.