ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book demonstrates the visualized foetus is a semiotic object, highly mobile beyond the clinic, with multiple meanings dependent on context. One might easily stumble across a sonogram on the London underground in an advertisement for vitamins, while surfing the Web or in a pregnancy magazine. The author argues that it would be progressive to make space within contemporary discourse for diverse experiences to be voiced and acknowledged, including experiences of pregnancy loss, abortion, prenatal diagnosis and even simply unpleasurable or indifferent experiences of viewing ultrasound images. It shows that 3/4D ultrasound has given new energy to the problematic notion of bonding through spectatorship. For Taylor, foetal images are always implicated in reproductive politics. She puts the pleasure of some women in direct juxtaposition with the problematic biopolitics of ultrasound: Relatively privileged US Women who embrace ultrasound as an enjoyable moment of consuming pregnancy.
