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But 1.6% didn’t. That is better than none.More than 90% of women change their minds about having an abortion after seeing an ultrasound, Rachel Campos-Duffy says
Politifact ruled that claims as False.
Does Looking at the Ultrasound Before an Abortion Change Women's Minds?
This latest study is much larger. Researchers analyzed 15,575 medical records from an urban abortion care provider in Los Angeles. Each patient seeking an abortion was asked how she felt about her choice: Those who made “clear and confident” replies were rated as having “high decision certainty,” while those who seemed sad, angry, or ambivalent were said to show “medium” or “low” decision certainty. (Only 7.4 percent of the women fell into the latter categories.) Patients underwent ultrasounds as part of the standard procedure, and 42.5 percent of them opted to see the images. Of those, 98.4 percent terminated their pregnancies; 99 percent of the women who did not look at the photographs ended their pregnancies. But here’s the thing: The women who viewed the sonograms and then backed out were all part of that 7.4 percent of women with low or medium decision certainty. Women who knew abortion was the right decision for them continued with the procedure whether they were shown the images or not.
The main takeaway here is definitely that 98.4 percent of the women who saw their ultrasounds went on to get an abortion anyway.
Agreed. In 2015 there were 638,169 abortions reported in the USA. If 1.6% of them were averted that would be over 10,000 lives saved.