An unborn baby’s heart begins to beat eighteen days after conception, and her fingerprints are completely established during the fourth week of development in her mother’s womb. She sucks her thumb seven weeks after conception; and sometime between nine and ten weeks, this preborn wonder squints, swallows, and moves her tongue.
At the moment of conception, every piece of her genetic puzzle is in place—a miraculous blueprint of life.
As a weaver knows his every stitch, as a seamstress purposefully fashions a beautiful garment—God creates us wonderful and whole even while our form is hidden.
Using modern scientific advancements such as high-resolution ultrasound imaging, Scripture’s absolute accuracy is confirmed.
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.
We need your help in outfitting centers with ultrasound machines.
100% of the funds given to the Psalm 139 Project are used to purchase and place sonogram machines and for the ongoing work of the fund. The ERLC is pleased to provide the administrative oversight as a part of our ongoing, Cooperative Program-funded ministry. Please send your tax-deductible gifts to the “Psalm 139 Project,” c/o ERLC, 901 Commerce St., Suite 550, Nashville, TN 37203. You also can give online through PayPal. An acknowledgment and proper accounting of your gift will be provided. Contact the ERLC with your questions.
“Increased access to ultrasound technology promises to reduce teenage pregnancies and abortions and to provide women with the information and support to make an informed decision,” Land says. “From my own statistics showing a 90 percent decreased rate of abortion with the use of ultrasound, this is an extremely effective means of reducing crisis pregnancies and changing hearts.”
