look! a blue car!

Listening to Morning Edition before work today, I heard a story on the growing popularity of prenatal ultrasound portraits. The FDA has issued a warning that the use of ultrasounds for non-medical use is both inappropriate and potentially harmful to fetal development.

Parents (and the one they had on the show sounded like the kind of idiots who would pay for this crap) are taking these "portraits" of their unborn children, I suppose for the scrapbook. One proprietor of such an establishment, when asked about the potential health risks to the fetus responded, "it's still safer than an abortion."

To translate, "I waste medical technology, and my behavior is indefensible, so I have to blather some right-wing crap on an unrelated topic."

Kind of like when the President brings up gay marriage when we're interested in the location of those WMD.