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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Mobile Ultrasound Aims To Reach Abortion-Vulnerable Women


By Kevin J. Jones

A network of pro-life pregnancy centers in Colorado is the latest to take to the streets with a mobile ultrasound unit that it hopes will help women choose life and reject abortion.

“We want to go to where the women are in their daily routines. Instead of waiting for women to find us, we’ll find them,” said Rick Thielen, executive director of the Longmont, Colo.-based Life Choices.

“We’ll meet them where they are, and hopefully show them that what they are really carrying is life, and isn’t just a mass of tissue as pop culture wants to tell them.”

Life Choices’ new ultrasound unit, housed in a large recreational vehicle, aims to provide free ultrasounds in zip codes with a high proportion of women more likely to undergo abortions. The organization gave a tour of the vehicle outside its new affiliate’s offices in Westminster.

“Our target is the abortion-determined women, who may already have an abortion scheduled,” Thielen told EWTN News May 31.

He reported that in general, about 70 percent of these women change their minds after viewing an ultrasound, while about 87 percent of women who are unsure whether to have an abortion will choose to carry their babies to term.

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