Focus on the Family to blast live, third-trimester ultrasound in Times Square

Christian conservative organization Focus on the Family will broadcast a live, third-trimester ultrasound on jumbo screens in Manhattan’s Times Square this spring in protest of New York’s new abortion law.

Focus on the Family President Jim Daly told CBN News this week that his Colorado-based global ministry will set up in Times Square on May 4 to call attention to the newly passed Reproductive Health Act, which greatly expands abortion rights in New York.

“We’ll have great speakers. We’re going to have music, but we’re also going to do a live ultrasound of a third-trimester baby,” Mr. Daly said. “And with the 4-D technology that we have, it looks like a 1-year-old picture — a baby of a 1-year-old. It’s phenomenal.

“There is no way a person is going to be able to say, ’That is not a child,’” he said. “It is a child and we want everybody to see it.”

The Reproductive Health Act, signed into law by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month, decriminalizes abortion and drops most of the state’s previous restrictions on abortions after 24 weeks. It also allows midwives and nurse practitioners to perform abortions.

Mr. Daly argued Tuesday that the majority of Americans are opposed to such loose restrictions on late-term abortions.

“We’re not shy about going there and saying to Gov. Cuomo and others, ’Let’s look. This isn’t adversarial. Let’s just take a position. Let’s see what an ultrasound looks like,’” he said.

“I doubt that they have actually seen one,” he added. “And so to be able to do that on the jumbo screen and say, ’Here’s a baby of a third-trimester pregnancy. Look at the definition. These children are viable outside the womb. These children are already fully human,’ and for the world to see that and to do it in such a way that we can all peer into the womb and see what that child looks like, developmentally and every other way — what an awesome sight to see. And these politicians will have to defend their position.”