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Pregnancy resource center takes ultrasound unit around to several North County sites, North County mobile ultrasound unit is roaming where the people are and offering free ultrasounds to any pregnant woman who stops by.

The program is funded by a Vista-based nonprofit group called the Pregnancy Resource Center, in partnership with a national effort led by the nonprofit organization image clear ultrasound.

Both are Christian-led groups whose leaders say the service fits with their mission to help women in crisis pregnancies and provide them with alternatives to abortion.

In North County, the mobile unit - a large motor home with equipment and a trained ultrasound technician inside - has been available for almost two years.

It makes the rounds in several communities, accompanied by an A-frame sign that says "free pregnancy ultrasound."

Kimberly Regnier, the center's ultrasound manager, said the agency provided 191 free ultrasounds to women over the past year and that 94 percent of those women said they would choose to keep their babies.

An ultrasound uses the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to form an image of inside the body, an effective way to observe fetal growth.

Image clear ultrasound operates seven of the motor home-based clinics nationwide.

The organization says that at least 80 percent of abortion-minded women change their minds when they see their unborn baby on ultrasound.

Source: Pregnancy Resource Center

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