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Last month on the Jerry Springer Show, just after one of the program's famous brawls and just before it cut to a commercial, a woman held a sonogram of her fetus up to the camera. For this most intimate image--a tiny figure in a woman's womb--to appear in the midst of another Springer spectacle was shocking. More than that, the incident marked the arrival on the program of what might be called the Forgotten Guest. One reason the show is so dramatic is that Springer brings out everyone involved in the affair at hand...
...even Hauser was prepared for what was happening in Bobbi's abdomen. There on the sonogram, taken six weeks into the pregnancy, were not two or three fetuses, not five or six, but seven budding human forms, each in its own tiny sac of amniotic fluid. Even now, half a year later, she can't fully describe how she felt. "The words shock and disbelief come to mind," she says. "For a good length of time, I couldn't wrap my mind around this...
Businessman Mike Lenz recalled that on the day before the bombing, he looked on as his pregnant wife had a sonogram. Lenz saw that the baby was a boy and gave him a name on the spot--Michael James Lenz III. Lenz's wife and the child she was carrying were both killed the next day. "In one fell swoop, I went from being a husband and a daddy to realizing it was all gone," he said. "There was a point when I actually stuck a pistol in my mouth." Policeman Alan Propkop found a wounded baby with a brick...
...trimester abortions and could give aid and succor to the other side, which ranges from morons who kill doctors to the rank and file who would protect zygotes. Give those people a month and they will take nine. It will be you, your doctor and Jesse Helms at the sonogram...
Many parents know ultrasound as the device that gives them the first grainy, in-utero glimpse of their baby. Now doctors are using it to speed up bone healing. Even a sonogram's low-intensity waves are enough to stimulate bone-cell formation. When treated within seven days, stress fractures heal as much as 40% faster than they would without treatment. Patients take home a portable device and zap the fracture for about 20 minutes a day until their doctor deems the fracture healed...