To Know You Is To Love You - Abortion Advocates Oppose Ultrasound Bill

We have all heard recently about Donald Trump's conversion from being pro-abortion to becoming pro-life. Why? To know you is to love you, are the words to a song that used to play on the radio a while back.

Donald Trump explains what changed his heart concerning the abortion issue, telling CBN News' David Brody, that this change came as the result of a friend's experience. This friend of Donald's was upset over his wife becoming pregnant, because he really didn't want a baby. Trump goes on to tell how his friend actually cried, as he later relayed to Donald how the baby ultimately became the apple of his eye, stating, "It's the greatest thing that's ever happened to me." This apparently showed Donald, that just because someone thinks they don't want a baby, that a person cannot really know before hand, just how much that child will mean to them once they know it and love it.

So what happened to this father, who didn't want his baby to begin with - and whose experience changed Donald Trump's mind on abortion as well? What happened is that he met and came to know his child. He was introduced to his child, at some point in time, either at it's birth ... or perhaps during an ultrasound ... which is most likely what happened, because expectant women these days who seek prenatal care, will have an ultrasound. It's common practice these days. One way or the other, this father ultimately met and fell in love with his child. Before he knew his child, he did not want it. Once he knew his child, his heart was smitten, and he was moved to tears, to think how he had once not wanted it.

Knowing his child, for this young father, made all the difference. Could this be why abortion advocates are opposing an Ultrasound Bill, which would require by law, that a woman have an ultrasound prior to having an abortion? What are they afraid of? If abortion is simply the termination of a pregnancy, why should there be any fear of allowing a mother to see what, or rather who, she is terminating? Abortion advocates are now protesting, that this bill will risk a woman's health, by making abortion procedures more expensive and harder to get. The claim is that pro-life advocates want to create an atmosphere in which abortion is inaccessible, even though it is legal. Inaccessible? Not exactly the correct word here. Pro-lifers want to make abortion unimaginable to a woman, by introducing her to her child through ultrasound technology.

Safe, legal and rare, is the mantra of abortion advocates. So, why is it that they would be against any measures which might make abortion rare? Allowing a woman to actually see her child, before deciding upon destroying it, should be welcomed by anyone who truly wants abortion to be rare. Abbey Johnson, the former Planned Parenthood Leader's own turn around came, from witnessing an ultrasound abortion, which she painfully describes in the opening chapter to her book. Seeing is believing - A picture is worth a thousand words - And to know someone is to love them.

Jeremiah 1:5 states, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." God knew each and every one of us before He knit us in our mother's womb. Back in the days of the Old Testament, parents could not know their children before they were born; and they truly were only known to God. In Psalm 139:15 we also read, "My bones were not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret." But, the authors of these verses from the Old Testament, would be completely amazed at how a child's form is no longer hidden, and it is no longer formed "in secret". With today's modern technology, a woman can now know her child while it is still being formed in her womb. Today, people now have a window into that, which Old Testament writers once called "secret". Now, with today's ultrasound technology, who can say that we are formed in secret and known only to God, before we are born? But, Planned Parenthood would say, that our womb should remain a "secret". Planned Parenthood does not want us to know our children while they are being formed in our womb.

Planned Parenthood does not want women to know their children. They do not want fathers to meet and fall in love with their child. They want the evil of abortion to remain a carefully guarded "secret". This is not the "secret" of a child being formed in the womb, who is known only to it's Creator. This is the "secret" of those who perform their evil deeds in darkness. They want the womb to remain a dark and hidden place, so that they can perform murder under cover of stealth; and so that a mother and a father will never know or love their child.