A deliberate falsification?

How is it possible for anyone with even a minimal level of training to mistake the ultrasound image of a 6-pound 4-ounce unborn child for that of a 6-week old fetus? Common sense suggests that it is not possible, and that there's more to this story.

So, let's speculate for a minute or two: Would the Summit Medical Clinic have deliberately lied to the mother about the age of her fetus? Maybe with a wink and a nod? Considering the fact that clinic staff falsified practically everything else about what occurred, that seems to be a believable assumption, but what could motivate such a fine and upstanding group of professionals to do something like that?

It doesn't take rocket science to figure out the answer. First of all, the pro-abortion lobby has a strong interest in ensuring that the reported number of late-term abortions remains low. Doctors and facilities known to provide the procedures in large numbers would attract unwanted attention from state public health authorities and pro-life groups. Considering the growing public disapproval of abortion in general, that wouldn't make for good PR.

Secondly, it appears that abortion providers currently have little to fear if and when they falsify records of late-term abortions. In Alabama, for instance, abortion providers have to report all "induced terminations of pregnancy" to the state, but those reports are used primarily for statistical purposes and are not easily verifiable, since patients' personal information is not provided. (See the Alan Guttmacher Institute's "Abortion Reporting in the United States" for more info. The Guttmacher Institute is the research arm of Planned Parenthood - the nation's largest abortion provider.)

Recently, some states - most notably Kansas - have been trying to obtain additional information on late-term abortions, but the pro-abortion lobby has fought very hard to prevent this from happening. So far, their efforts have been quite successful. (See here, here, here, here, and here.)

In refusing to hand over records of late-term abortions, providers and their apologists say that they only want to protect patients' privacy. Given what we now know about one Alabama abortion provider, could it be that their motives are somewhat less admirable than they acknowledge?