Anti-choice ‘ministry’ deploys ultrasound RVs to sway ‘abortion-minded women’

The executive director of an anti-choice ministry called “ICU Mobile” touted his organization’s effort to deploy recreational vehicles outfitted with ultrasound machines to sway “abortion-minded women” away from undergoing the procedures at the headquarters of the Family Research Council on Wednesday.

Michael Homula, an admitted former member of the radical anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, claimed that ICU Mobile has a fleet of 41 vehicles around the country (far more than the 12 ICU lays claim to on its website). He described the process of ICU Mobile founder Sylvia Slyfco’s efforts of retrofitting an RV into a “mobile ministry” that administers ultrasounds and offers “counseling” in the same style as anti-choice Crisis Pregnancy Centers, which have come under fire for providing a litany of inaccurate medical information to the often-unsuspecting women who enter the facilities under the assumption that they’re health care centers.

He claimed the RVs go through a process that’s slightly different from a straightforward retrofitting because “that’s just a little creepy.” He went on to explain that, “this vehicle technically never was an RV even though it looks like one” and that the staff members all go through a 20-week ministry training because “they must put on the full armor of God.”