Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Mandated Ultrasounds in Florida - Apples of Gold - June 9, 2010 -vi-

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Radio Script for June 9, 2010

“Mandated Ultrasounds in Florida

 

Hello, I’m Doug Apple…with Apples of Gold.

 

A bill sits on the Florida governor’s desk.

It requires pregnant women to have an ultrasound before getting an abortion.

Pro-lifers love it because it will cut down on the number of abortions. 

Why will it cut down on abortions?

Because when a woman is more informed about what is going on inside of her, she is much more likely to continue her pregnancy.

For example, and I’m no doctor so I’m not going to use big medical words, but I am the father of four and I’ve been through a few ultrasounds, and here’s what they do.  They smear some goo on the woman (and it’s always cold, by the way) and they put this little wand or whatever on her lower abdomen. 

And then the nurse is likely to say something like this.  “Do you hear that?  That’s your baby’s heartbeat.”

Can you see why it becomes more difficult to have an abortion? 

Pro-lifers use this phrase, “Abortion stops a beating heart,” and it’s true.  About the time a woman realizes she has missed her period and goes in for an abortion, that heartbeat will show up on the ultrasound.  In fact, you can see the heart beating.  That’s just six weeks after conception. 

What’s interesting is that lots of women have loaded their ultrasound videos up on YouTube, with titles like “Baby’s Heartbeat” followed by lots of exclamation points. *

When they do an ultrasound, they might first pick up the mother’s heartbeat.  I don’t know, but I think it would be kind of creepy to have my own heartbeat echoing through a speaker.

So you might hear the mother’s heartbeat first, but they continue moving it around until, there it is, your baby’s heartbeat – which is a completely “other” heartbeat than your own.  So now, coming out of the speaker, is the sound of another heart beating inside you. 

No wonder the pro-choice people are having a flying fit about this legislation.  And they are grasping at straws to shut it down.

And what is their big excuse?  That it will cost these poor women extra money to pay for the ultrasound.

Well I don’t know if the law says who must perform the ultrasound, but I do know this.  Women’s pregnancy centers across the state are thrilled to do ultrasounds for free!  You don’t have to spend a dime.  A Woman’s Pregnancy Center here in Tallahassee has been giving free ultrasounds for a long time now.**

Why free ultrasounds?  Because we are pro-life, and the ultrasound reveals that life.  It pulls back the veil and shows the mother what is really going on in her womb.

This law is a way to make sure she really knows what she is doing before she does it.  She should not go into this medical procedure blindly.  She needs this information that the ultrasound will give her, and she doesn’t have to spend a penny to get it.

So now the law sits on the desk of Governor Charlie Crist.  A Tallahassee TV station, WCTV***, is reporting that Crist said there is nothing that he likes about this bill, nothing.  Well if that’s the case, he will likely veto it.

And here’s a curious move.  The TV station also reported that the governor has removed all pro-life language from his website.  You see, Mr. Crist is now running for U.S. Senate, and not as a Republican, which has been his party up until now.  Because he faced strong conservative opposition in the primary from Marco Rubio, Crist decided to pull from the party and run as an independent.  And now, according to WCTV, where Crist once seemed to at least lean in the pro-life direction, he now has erased that language from his website.  And it seems like he is setting himself up to veto this bill that would mandate ultrasounds for pregnant women.

Should we go around mandating medical procedures?  Well no one is mandating abortion.  All we are saying is, if you are going to get an abortion, here is one thing you must do first to be fully informed.

It passed in the House.  It passed in the Senate.  The majority of people contacting the governor are telling him to sign it. 

So now it comes down to this. 

Will Governor Crist veto the ultrasound bill?


Comments?

E-mail me:  dougapple@wave94.com.

May God bless you today!  With Apples of Gold…I’m Doug Apple.

*  Baby’s Heartbeat!!!!  See over a thousand videos like this on YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22baby%27s%20heartbeat&search=Search&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&spell=1

**  A Woman’s
Pregnancy Centerhttp://www.awpc.cc/

*** News story on WCTV.TV:  http://www.wctv.tv/news/headlines/95918214.html

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