When abortion law isn’t the topic, everyone admits it’s a heartbeat
By
Timothy P. Carney
May 7, 2024 3:30 pm
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South Carolina’s legislature voted to outlaw abortions for babies who have a heartbeat. Planned Parenthood is challenging that law, and in particular, the abortion giant is challenging its application to babies at 6 to 8 weeks of gestation.
Part of Planned Parenthood’s argument is that babies at six weeks do not have a heartbeat. There are specific legal questions about the wording of the South Carolina law, but one of the least defensible arguments made by abortion defenders is that babies this early in development lack a heartbeat.
The first inconvenient fact for abortion defenders is that an ultrasound detects the heartbeat of the in-utero baby at about six weeks. On the ultrasound screen, you can see the tiny heart beating to pump blood throughout the tiny body. Also, ultrasound machines indicate the rate and magnitude of this motion by producing a sound.
The efforts to deny this is a heartbeat are tireless — and often inexplicable.
Stacey Abrams, the celebrity Democrat, tried to spread a bizarre conspiracy theory about the makers of these ultrasound machines.
“There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks,” Abrams said while running for governor in 2022. “It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body.”
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