Our Story Update 7-17-2025

See it. Know it. Live it.

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
- Galileo Galilei

The Concept

The three waves in our logo represent three levels of understanding. In a healthy, free society, people should be encouraged to seek the truth, come to know the truth, and be allowed to live out the truth in their daily lives. Some people understand the truth in their hearts without physical or intellectual knowledge. Others need evidence to understand the truth. We now have the ability to see the truth of how we all spent up to nine months of the earliest stages of our existence.

Life on Display provides a chance to see that truth.

The History

Ultrasound is a mid-twentieth-century discovery that is safe for mothers and their unborn babies. And, just as importantly, it is completely objective in its interpretation of the subject being observed. When viewing the inside of a uterus with 2D ultrasound, there is no filter that changes or manipulates what is observed. The 3D/4D/HD software is also unbiased. While it can be manipulated to control the parameters and depth of viewing, it is still an accurate rendition of exactly what would be observed if one could do so with one’s own eyes.

That’s why I love ultrasound so much…it shows the TRUTH! My name is Jessica White, and I am the founder of Life On Display. My husband and I have eight children and live in a small town in Michigan. I opened an elective ultrasound studio ten years ago and have been providing parents and their families with the unparalleled experience of viewing their unborn babies just for the sake of seeing them. Not for taking measurements or performing any diagnostics, but just to see what the baby looks like. See if the baby is a boy or a girl. See if there is more than one baby. See if the baby has a heartbeat because it is too early to feel movement yet. Sometimes, it is just to see what the world is like for their little one…because they do not remember that time in their own lives.

The Impact

Over the years, I have heard the reactions of parents, grandparents, older siblings and friends as they see the baby for the first time. Overwhelmingly, none of them had any idea whatsoever the “baby would be so clear” or “so developed” or “be moving around so much.” Even the teenagers who have been raised in a digital age with a screen in front of their face most of the time did not know the scan would be “so cool to see.” They’ve seen videos online. We all have. Are any of them real? How do you know?

There is something about being in the same room with the camera (the ultrasound machine) and the set (the inside of Mom’s uterus) and observing the production with no editing. There is something about hearing when a mom laughs or coos at the screen showing her unborn baby and seeing that the baby smiles in response. There is something about observing the ultrasound tech pat on the mom’s belly and seeing the resulting vibration on the screen and then seeing with your own eyes how the baby reacts to that stimulus. It is undeniable. In a technological world where everything can be pulled up online and seen in a video but with filters and editing at everyone’s fingertips, not knowing what is real and what has been manipulated…people are struck when the naked truth is revealed.

That is what I have observed in my office for the past decade.
That is what I want people to see.

The Motivation

I am well aware that many people will see what I have to show them and still choose to define it as something else, but they get to see with their own eyes what they cannot remember about their own experience. They do not have to take someone else’s word for it, someone else’s interpretation.

People say a picture is worth a thousand words. I say an unedited video of what is happening in the womb is priceless. There is a lot of passion on both sides when it comes to the debate over what people should or should not be allowed to do with the body inside their body. I am personally invested in the concerns on both sides of that debate, but my priority is to show the truth of what is in the womb and what that world is like. In today’s world, young people will find themselves in situations where they have to make a decision about an unborn baby. I want those same young people to see what or who those decisions will affect and how. Young people deserve the unfiltered truth. I would like to show them that truth.

After all, how can anyone make a good decision unless they consider what is best for all those affected? And how can one know what is best for all those affected unless one tries to fully understand the experience that decision will cause for each?

“It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not.”

- Carl Sagan