In the Womb with NARAL

These are incredible images. If you subscribe to Comcast then take a look at their feature called "The Fan." It contains a short 3 minute video from National Geographic called In the Womb. A longer video is on the National Geographic online along with an article titled, 4-D Ultrasound Gives Video View of Fetuses in the Womb.

Towards the end of the article, the following statement is mad (emphasis added):

Everyone agrees that the new scans already provide dramatically better visualization for parents, which can result in an even stronger parent-child bond. High-risk obstetrician and gynecologist Jude Crino is the director of the Perinatal Ultrasound Unit at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

"We can see better, but it's also important that the patient can see better," he explained. "When I give a patient a 2-D image, it's not uncommon for them to ask two or three times, 'What is this? Could you point this out?' If you give them a 3-D image, they are immediately able to recognize it, because it looks like a baby."

No doubt this is a misprint. According to NARAL, the article should say that the 3-D images "result in a stronger parent-right to choose bond" and "If you give [the parents] a 3-D image, they are immediately able to recognize it, because it looks like a mass of cells."