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LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Current Headlines

* Pelosi Aide: Health Care Summit a Trick, Strategy on Pro-Abortion Bill Decided
* White House Faith Office Director: Still Working on Plan to Reduce Abortions
* Dawn Johnsen May Receive Recess Appointment, Perhaps Supreme Court Seat
* Poll: Majority of Americans Say Abstinence Effective, Want Parents Involved
* Planned Parenthood Abortion Center in Alabama on Probation, Hid Sexual Abuse
* Cartoons Poke Fun at Pro-Abortion Opposition to Tebow Pro-Life Commercial
* Wife of Jailed Chinese Forced Abortion Opponent Granted Brief Prison Visit
* Controversy Continues on USCCB Official's "Involvement" in Pro-Abortion Group
* California Governor Schwarzenegger, Jack O'Connell Should Back Abstinence
* Ohio House Speaker Backs Down, Will Allow Pro-Life Teen to Receive Award
* Rockford, Ill Places Proposed Abortion Bubble Zone Limiting Pro-Lifers on Hold
* Pro-Life News Briefs

LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report
Friday, February 12, 2010

Current Headlines

* Nancy Pelosi Pushes for Majority Vote to Railroad Pro-Abortion Health Care
* Gallup Poll Shows Obama in Trouble in 2012, No Clear Republican Frontrunner
* Poll Brings Bad News for Sarah Palin, But She Heads to Another Pro-Life Event
* Valentine's Day Cards From Planned Parenthood Promote Abortion, Condoms
* Investigator Lila Rose Happy Planned Parenthood Abortion Center on Probation
* MTV Show 16 and Pregnant Criticized for Not Promoting Teen Abortions
* Coalition of Catholic Groups Call on Bishops to Stop CCHD's Pro-Abortion Grants
* NBC's Law and Order SVU: Abortion Debate Boils Down to "Pro-Choice or No Choice"
* Tim Tebow Doesn't Comment on Pro-Life Super Bowl Commercial at Daytona 500
* Virginia House Panel Approves Pro-Abortion "Respect Choice" License Plate

Utah Committee Passes Bill to Allow Women to See Ultrasound Before Abortion

Salt Lake City, UT (LifeNews.com) -- When ultrasound first became popular the question was, would abortions be done if women and society had a window to the womb? A Utah state legislative panels that window open because it passed a bill allowing women a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn child before an abortion.

When used in pregnancy centers, ultrasounds are credited with helping more than 80 percent of women to reconsider a decision to have an abortion.

Legislators hope many women will be convinced to find positive alternatives by seeing an ultrasound at an abortion center.

HB 200 reworks some of the current informed consent language currently on the books in Utah and makes it so abortion centers must allow women a chance to see an ultrasound before the abortion is done.

The bill also requires abortion facilities to provide a detailed description of the unborn child to the mother considering abortion.

The legislation, sponsored by Republican state Rep. Carl Wimmer, also requires the state Department of Health to produce both printed and video information about the ultrasound viewing that abortion businesses must give women 24 hours in advance of the abortion informing them of their rights to view one.