By Sarah-Marie Hoduski, Kansas City
Ultrasound echoes of the unborn contribute to science based slowing of abortion rates.
Echolocation: sight through sound— is a stunningly effective second sight for otherwise blind creatures. Bats are so effective at using their sonar sight that even in the darkness they can catch up to 1,200 insects an hour—one Texas cave system of bats consumes an incredible 200 tons of bugs every single night!
One of the marvels of modern medicine is harnesses similar sonar techn
ology that allows pregnant women to use echo technology to see their unborn children. These ultrasound sessions— as mothers watch their unborn children— have resulted in comical, sometimes incredulity inducing results— parents have seen their unborn children clapping their hands and feet, a child slapping its twin in retaliation, thumb sucking, or demonstrating their parents’ facial mannerisms.
As women have experienced the wonder of unborn heartbeats, antics, and evident humanity of their child, analysts have wondered if these wonderful insights into the womb have resulted in 2014’s record low abortion rates, which were the lowest since abortion was legalized in 1973. Abortion rates have continued to fall over the last five years.
The organization Save the Storks notes that they have an eighty percent success rate with mothers choosing life after they see their children on an ultrasound. This sonar technology is aiding medicine to see the reality of life where science has been blind.
The sonar echoes of children in the womb are voices allowing the United States to see despite their decades long blindness the humanity of the unborn.
Whatever the cause of the decline of abortion, one ultrasound had a lasting and far reaching impact on the life of former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson. Ms. Johnson was famously involved in the abortion business. Ironically, she joined the Planned parenthood initially to reduce the number of abortions through helping women that came to her clinic.
Nevertheless, Johnson says that she was connected with 20,000 abortions that came through the clinic during her time, but she notes that despite the numbers she was blind to the realities of abortion until she was called into help with an ultrasound guided abortion. It changed her life forever. She felt confronted by the humanity of the child she was seeing on the screen and left the abortion industry. Johnson now works to help other abortion workers leave the business.
Today, Johnson uses kindness to help previously blinded abortion workers sound their way out of the business. In a segment of society where there is so much darkness, Abby works using empathy to enable others to see the humanity of the unborn and to locate a different life path. Johnson speaks with obvious compassion when she discusses that for the majority of abortion workers this was never the plan, and they don’t know how to get out.
Abby Johnson runs the campaign, And Then There Were None. (ATTWN) Her organization helps abortion facility workers find healing and a way out of the abortion business.
“To date, ATTWN has helped approximately 350 workers leave the abortion industry and we have helped them on their journey toward healing. As a direct result of the testimony of these workers, several clinics have been permanently shut down…The abortion industry understands something that many pro-lifers fail to grasp: there is no tool in the pro-life arsenal as effective or lethal to the abortion industry than their former employees.”
Like Johnson, these former employees operate against the travesties of the abortion business once they are on the outside. Their testimonies and empathy for other clinic workers that are still involved in abortions makes them significantly impactful in the pro-life movement.
Johnson’s organization ATTWN continues that: “Many times, workers have been a part of or witnessed illegal activity at their clinics. We have attorneys in all 50 states who are willing to help these workers bring these facts to light and offer them legal protection and representation. When appropriate, these lawyers also use the testimony of the workers to close down abortion facilities.”
These operatives provide abortion workers with the capacity to transition from their clinic work: a month’s salary, professional resume writers, and resources in every city in America to help workers transition into new employment.
In her book, Unplanned, (now a records shattering independent film) Johnson describes the casualties of the Abortion Wars as reaching beyond the mother and child. Parents, grandparents, the abortion workers themselves are all harmed through abortion emotionally and relationally.
Correspondingly, ATTWN’s focus is to bring healing to former abortion workers. Each former clinic worker is partnered with a Client Manager that aids in the recovery process, non-judgmental forums are available for sharing, and clients are invited on all expense paid retreats.
If Mark Twain was right that, “kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see,” then Abby Johnson is restoring sight that echoes all across the United States.
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