Crisis pregnancy center now able to offer ultrasounds to clients

Published: 2005-12-22

METUCHEN, N.J. (CNS) -- Pam Houghton, client services director at a Metuchen center for women with crisis pregnancies, knows that a picture is worth a thousand words. Now the facility, called the Life Choices Resource Center, has ultrasound technology that will give the women an opportunity to see their unborn children up to eight months before the babies' due date. Before Life Choices can begin offering ultrasounds to the public, volunteers who are seven to 24 weeks pregnant are needed to help the nurses complete their training on the equipment. "The training will get us up to speed to do ultrasounds in the first trimester, to show viability and then, hopefully, once the mother sees a live baby, help her decide to carry her baby to term either by deciding on adoption or (raising) the baby herself," said Mary Wolfram, Life Choices nurse manager. "I hope their hearts will open and they'll be willing to accept there's another human being inside of them," said Deborah Vokral, chairman of its board of trustees and a Life Choices advocate who meets with clients to discuss their pregnancies.

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