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Let’s say your “company” kills unborn babies for a living. Although on first blush it may not seem obvious, for that to succeed indefinitely, you require more than just legalization and the understandable panic women (and especially young girls) experience when confronted with a crisis pregnancy.

For example, language must be sanitized. Ixnay on the word “kill.” “Terminate” sounds less threatening. You kill people but terminate contracts.

And naturally it is imperative that we all pretend that women are always making a free choice, when we all know this is palpably untrue.

But beyond everything else keep the victim out of sight. Which is why ultrasounds so scare the abortion industry.

Yesterday on a tie vote the Florida Senate defeated a measure which would have given a woman contemplating an abortion the option of seeing an ultrasound of her child. The companion bill (HB 257) passed the House almost a month ago.

The usual nonsense waffled through the halls, beginning with claims that this attempt at genuine informed consent would interfere with the “physician/patient relationship.” As if an impersonal last-minute interaction which ended in the death of an innocent third party was “medicine” in any sense.

Interestingly enough, Florida law requires that abortionists use ultrasound when destroying older unborn babies. The fear is some of the baby’s remains would be left inside her mother, leading to infection. But the use of the same ultrasound to enlighten the woman prior to an abortion is taboo.

The Florida Baptist ran a very comprehensive article this morning. I will quote liberally from the account.

During the 90-minute debate, Sen. Ronda Storms asked opponents of SB 2400, “What is it that we might be afraid of? ... Oh, I don't know, could it be that in the ultrasound that she might see the baby, the unborn, putting his thumb to his mouth and sucking his thumb before she has the abortion? Could that be what we're afraid of–-so we think she won’t have it? When is it good for her to see that, after she’s had one or two abortions?”

Senate Sponsor Daniel Webster invoked University of Florida Quarterback and Heisman Trophy Winner Timmy Teboe, whose mother was twice advised by physicians to abort because they feared birth defects.

“There may be other Timmy Tebows that if just the mom could just see the ultrasound – that’s all we’re doing, we’re offering information that doesn’t exist today and is not shown today. That’s all we want.” Webster added, “And maybe there’ll be one more Timmy Tebow who grows up to become quite a man.”