Keepsake videos of unborn baby generate controversy
Dec. 15, 2006. 01:00 AM
Fetal ultrasound "keepsake" videos are a relatively new development.
But they've caused a stir. Health Canada urges that parents not expose unborn babies to them, as there's no medical reason to do so. Ultrasounds use short sound vibration bursts that travel as waves through the body in focused beams. Echoes from the beams are converted into real-time images showing movement, surface features, internal organs and other features.
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As far as I'm concerned, this is bogus.
The studies of ultrasounds on rats showed that if you exposed their fetuses to SEVEN HOURS of ultrasound, they could suffer damage.
Yeah, seven hours MIGHT damage to a rat, but an hour's exposure to a human fetus is another issue.
If ultrasounds did any meaningful damage, we would see the effects by now.
