Business is business--or is it?Do "pregnancy clinics" that seek to dissuade women from having abortions really believe that their tactics are essentially just business plans? Apparently so, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a clinic director in Maryland, quoted as saying that they set up shop close to abortion clinics "just like McDonald's and Starbucks look for competitors to be next to." (1) In contrast to McDonald's and Starbucks, however, pregnancy clinics do not always deliver what they advertise. Abortion rights advocates contend that although they present themselves as neutral clinical facilities, they are driven by a conservative agenda and aim to confuse and frighten vulnerable women. An increasingly popular tactic among these clinics is to show pregnant women ultrasound images of their fetus; a 2005 survey of a large network of pregnancy clinics found that nearly three-quarters of women who had been "strongly leaning" toward having an abortion changed their minds after seeing a sonogram son·o·gram n. An image, as of an unborn fetus, produced by ultrasonography. Also called echogram, sonograph, ultrasonogram. . (1.) Chandler MA, Antiabortion an·ti·a·bor·tion adj. Opposed to induced abortion: the antiabortion movement. an centers offer sonograms to further cause, Washington Post, Sept. 9, 2006, p. A1. FYI "For your information." See digispeak. FYI - For Your Information is compiled and written by Dore Hollander; executive editor of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Within the framework of WHO's definition of health[1] as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, reproductive health, or sexual health/hygiene . |
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