Asheville Pregnancy Support Services often gives baby gear to women who feel they can't afford to raise a child.
The pregnancy-center clinic, with its new ultrasound machine, has been open only since December, but already the staff can count the women who came in considering an abortion and changed their minds: five women converted, six lives saved, they declare, since one was carrying twins. "They connected," nurse Joyce Wilson says, recalling the reaction of the women who saw the filmy image of their fetus onscreen. "They bonded. You could just see it. One girl got off the table and said, 'That's my baby.'"
"Another got up," Deborah Wood says, "and said, 'This changes everything.'"
Wood is the CEO of Asheville Pregnancy...
