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...centerpiece of "The Silent Scream" is an ultrasound film of an abortion, which is purported to depict the fetus opening its mouth "in a silent scream" of pain and fear, proving that the fetus is "just another person, like you and me." In a panel discussion at the University of Washington School of Medicine, obstetricians with extensive experience in ultrasound reported that they could not make out the fetal features and gestures--including the "silent scream" which the narrator described. The type of camera, doctors and technicians agreed, is switched during the procedure to one that provides less resolution...
...silent scream" of the title comes from a fetus in the womb--shown by an "ultrasound," computer generated picture--whose mouth opens as a doctor conducts probes necessary for an abortion. Presumably, the fetus reacts to perceived or potential pain...
...early ultrasound images, Nathanson points out what he says are the head and body of the fetus and the pulsing rhythm of the fetus' heartbeat...
...President also called attention to a just released antiabortion film, The Silent Scream, a startling 28-minute documentary that shows ultrasound images of a twelve-week-old fetus being aborted. Activists predict the film will become a high-technology Uncle Tom's Cabin, arousing the public just as Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 antislavery novel ignited the abolitionist movement. Declared Reagan: "It's been said that if every member of Congress could see that film, they would move quickly to end the tragedy of abortion." The producer, American Portrait Films of Anaheim, Calif., plans to mail the movie...
...addition, when the debate is reduced or oversimplified into a question about the status of woman and fetus, the issue of abortion is effectively turned into a competition between opposing views (about the rights of women, the rights of the fetus) removed from the contest of community of society. And once this contest is excluded from debate rhetoric, the principle of toleration which governs opposing viewpoints in society is also excluded. The debate over abortion is no longer a debate but a two sided monologue where neither siode listens to the other because so much "pro-life" rhetoric seems...