Stacy Abrams — Six Week Fetal Heartbeat is “Manufactured” by Men to Control Women’s Bodies
“There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks. It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body.”
Stacy Abrams made this absurd statement regarding abortion on Tuesday at Ray Charles Performing Arts Center in Atlanta.
This statement is not only false, it is also a common argument designed to persuade women into aborting their children. This plays into the narrative that the child in the womb is not alive, or a person, but simply a “clump of cells.” But even Planned Parenthood cannot deny the reality of the child in the womb, stating on their own website that “very basic beating heart and circulatory system develop” at the fifth to sixth week gestation mark.
Planned Parenthood later amended its website to more closely reflect pro-abortion messaging against heartbeat laws, which ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected. Now the site says a “part of the embryo starts to show cardiac activity” during that time.
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Abrams’ claim echos a common myth on the left, that the fetal heartbeat detected in this early stage of development is simply “a primitive tube of cardiac cells that emit electric pulses and pump blood.” But the term “heartbeat” is only debated because of laws that ban abortion past the point of fetal heartbeat detection. The left consistently tries to confuse seemingly black and white topics, if they can distort the facts concerning when a heartbeat can actually be considered a heartbeat, they can also confuse when a person gains personhood — and therefore human rights.
Abrams was asked by Alyssa Farah, co-host of “The View” if she believed there should be any legal limits on abortion, either at the point of viability or later on in the third trimester, her response was, as expected, vague, and leaned towards the more radical position of abortion at any time, for any reason. “I believe that abortion is a medical decision, not a political decision. Arbitrary politically-defined timelines are deeply problematic because they ignore the reality of medical and physiological issues,” Abrams said.
Her assertion that there are medical or psychological problems that would leave a woman no choice but to abort has been debunked time and time again. If the life of the mother is at risk, an obviously devastating situation, the baby would be delivered early either through induced labor or C-section (Cesarean Delivery). Both the baby and mother would receive as much life-saving medical care as could be offered in this instance.
Abrams continued, “The limit should not be made by politicians who don’t understand basic biology or apparently basic morality.”
This statement might hold some truth, given that many politicians do not understand basic biology — just ask them what a woman is and you’ll see the deck of cards start tumbling down.
The consensus in the medical community is clear: at five to six weeks gestation, the baby’s heartbeat is in the beginning stages of development, a process that will continue throughout the person’s adult life. At this point however, the fetal heartbeat can be detected, and is therefore considered in existence, and can be protected by law — no matter the stage of cardiac-development.
