May 25, 2019
The abortion debate: Ultrasound technology changed everything
By Patricia McCarthy
For those of us of a certain age who were brought up in non-religious or nominally religious homes, abortion was, when we were young, something no one spoke about. By the 1960s, we may have heard about high school friends who went to Mexico for abortions that were illegal here. Such gossip was hushed, and few of us knew what an abortion entailed or had any sense of the gravity of the procedure. Our contemporaries who had been raised in religious homes never talked about such things, so if they had an opinion on the topic, they did not share it.
By the time we reached adulthood, we were "pro-choice" because that was the thing to be. Wasn't everyone pro-choice? What did that mean? It meant ending an unwanted pregnancy the moment it was realized. No one then ever considered the possibility or option of waiting many months to make such a decision. It never entered anyone's mind that what are now called late-term abortions were even possible.
If one was still young in 1973, apolitical, and not a regular church-goer, we did not give too much thought to the gravity of the Roe v. Wade decision. Again, no one then could have conceived of the idea of late-term or post-birth abortion. Then we began having our own children, unconcerned that we would not know the sex of the baby until the birth. The main "technology" was still the fetoscope that could discern the heartbeat of the fetus. We lived for and worried about that at every prenatal visit to our OBs. A fast heartbeat meant a boy, slower a girl — so the theory went. Maybe it was the other way around. The doctors generally told you one thing and wrote the other in your file just to be safe. They had no way of knowing, either.
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