Handheld ultrasound machines smaller than a newborn and viewable on your phone will have a spectacular impact on the abortion debate.
Technology Review reports:
Two years ago, computer engineers at Washington University in St. Louis created a prototype that took ultrasound imaging to a new level of mobility and connectivity—they connected an ultrasound probe to a smart phone. Now a startup awaiting clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration hopes to begin selling the device next year.
November 30, 2010 at 3:45 am
This takes recreational ultrasounds to a whole new level. I realize it might be good for the pro-life cause, but isn't anyone concerned about the effect of ultrasounds on the unborn?
http://www.google.com/search?q=ultrasound+risks+to+baby
November 30, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Ultrasounds have never been shown to cause ANY harm to the unborn. Like the supposed connection between vaccines and autism, it's just another example of paranoid junk science by promoted by quacks. Why are Catholic families so prone to buy into the bad news/bad science?
~ Marie
November 30, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Marie, please show compassion and charity for the parents whose children's vaccinations are the only thing "different" between their once-normal child and their now severely-disabled child. If you knew of one of these parents, you might have a better understanding of what the parents know by instinct–their child is severely disabled after a vaccination. Why? Why is there an epidemic of Type I diabetes in children? My own child was given the DPT vaccine, had a severe reaction, and two years later was Type I diabetic at 4 years old. There is not a single case of Type I diabetes in my large extended family. Coincidence? I think not: http://www.nvic.org/vaccines-and-diseases/Diabetes/juvenilediabetes.aspx
To Jesus, through Mary!
December 2, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Anonymous — While I do feel greatly for parents who want answers for their children's illnesses, I do not think it is charitable or compassionate for people to promote unproven science, or as in the case of autism a non-existent relationship, as absolute fact when deadly childhood diseases are the risk of encouraging others to forgo vaccines. Off the top of my head, I can think of three children who would certainly have died if their families had chosen to forgo ultrasound. Junk science kills.
-Marie