to providing a caring, compassionate, and professional service. we have a mandate, don't we? from god to do something... dr chris richards is an nhs paediatrician and the director of the centre. ..and deliver those who are drawn towards death and hold back those stumbling to the slaughter. we know what's going on... here he explains how the use of ultrasound scans in crisis pregnancy centres in america has helped convince women there not to have abortions. the power of ultrasound amongst the population, particularly in the states, has had a profound effect. the heartbeat appears at three weeks and five or six days. it's the size of a poppy seed but it doesn't look like that on the scan because you see this quite big image going at about sort of 100, 120 beats per minute. crisis pregnancy centres in the uk are very much modelled on crisis pregnancy