Only those who fear the truth could object to these life-like fetal models
By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation

“Can I take a picture?”
At least three different women posed the same question as I stood behind the educational table at a Women’s Conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The women, of all different ages and from varying walks of life, wanted to snap a photo of one of our 12-week-old fetal models.
With camera phones nearly as ubiquitous as handbags, the requests might not be surprising. And yet, I was struck by just how many women wanted a lasting reminder of what a baby in utero looks like.
What a tremendous teaching tool these fetal models are! They can help introduce a young one to the beauty of human creation…inform a pregnant woman about the growing child within her…or let an expectant father know the stage of his preborn child’s development. So much information…so much potential…packed in one picture!
It was altogether touching how one woman after another would pause at our display, gazing lovingly at the fetal models that were available for viewing. The models showed four stages of growth—from 12 weeks to 16 weeks to 22 weeks to 26 weeks in utero.
The visitors often seemed overcome with emotion, remembering a child that was born long ago…or a child that was lost to miscarriage. It was readily apparent that the mere sight of the fetal models represented a bonding experience for many women.
When I hear pro-abortion organizations that claim they speak for women, I think of the women who passed by our display. Certainly, these abortion extremist groups do not speak for them.
And I am reminded again that pro-life is really pro-woman. Because we inform women about the development of their unborn children. Because we show the humanity of the unborn baby girl. Because we believe that every woman deserves far better than a cold-hearted offer to take the life of her preborn child.
In our high-tech world, where we spend a great deal of time living in cyberspace, it can be comforting to touch and hold a physical model of a preborn baby. It can seem so much more personal than an image on a screen.
Only those who fear the truth could object to these life-like fetal models. For the truth is, once a woman knows what a preborn child looks like, she is far more likely to choose life for that child.
Where better than a conference of women to show the immense miracle of the baby in the womb? Women are hungry for this vital, life-saving, life-changing information—so hungry, in fact, that they want to take a photo of it and share it.
In this way, 21st century technology meets tried and true 20th century tools—and lives are saved as a result.