{"id":199760,"date":"2019-04-07T06:23:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T11:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=199760"},"modified":"2019-04-05T17:41:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T22:41:32","slug":"preborn-children-heartbeat-answer-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/preborn-children-heartbeat-answer-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Do preborn children have an actual heartbeat? The answer is yes."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>As Georgia&#8217;s heartbeat bill continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/georgia-house-passes-heartbeat-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">await a signature from Governor Kemp<\/a> and other states move to pass similar bills, abortion supporters are furiously trying to deny not only the humanity of preborn children, but even that a preborn child&#8217;s heartbeat exists early in pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehd.org\/about-us.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Endowment for Human Development<\/a> (EHD) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to apply \u201cthe science of human prenatal development&#8230; as an indispensable and unique way to improve children\u2019s health, enhance their development, and prevent certain birth defects and chronic diseases.\u201d They also have a vow of neutrality on controversial issues like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abortionprocedures.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion<\/a>, making EHD an unbiased source on the science of fetal development.<\/p>\n<p>In this video from EHD, you can see the heartbeat of a preborn child at just four weeks gestation. Far from being a meaningless muscle twitch, the video clearly shows blood pumping through the heart, the chambers noticeably changing colors as the blood flows.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k0WNRR-epPI\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>EHD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehd.org\/movies.php?mov_id=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explains<\/a> that the heart begins <em>beating<\/em> at just three weeks gestation &#8212; not a random muscle spasm. This early in the pregnancy, there are only two chambers of the heart, yet they are already circulating blood. This is necessary for fetal development; as the EHD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehd.org\/slideshow-images.php?slide=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explains<\/a>, the circulatory system is the first to form, because the developing preborn child needs healthy blood pumping and flowing in order to grow and thrive.<\/p>\n<p>While early in the pregnancy the heart only has two chambers, by nine weeks, the heart is completely formed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-deception-heartbeat-bills\/\">Pro-abortion researcher relies on deception to attack heartbeat bills<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nrf_6FPOaRI\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/americanpregnancy.org\/while-pregnant\/first-trimester\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Pregnancy Association<\/a> likewise affirms that the heart is formed by the third gestational week, and beats steadily, with blood flowing through the preborn baby&#8217;s blood vessels.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s understandably uncomfortable for abortion activists to accept the reality of a weeks-old preborn child with a functioning heart; no one wants to think of themselves as someone who is willing to take the life of a living human being. Yet this is the reality of what abortion does. It takes a human life; it stops a beating heart. Denying the scientific reality doesn&#8217;t change the truth of what abortion truly is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Georgia&#8217;s heartbeat bill continues to await a signature from Governor Kemp and other states move to pass similar bills, abortion supporters are furiously trying to deny not only the humanity of preborn children, but even that a preborn child&#8217;s heartbeat exists early in pregnancy. 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