{"id":201488,"date":"2019-05-09T08:47:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T13:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=201488"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:30:08","slug":"media-abortionists-lies-dehumanize-preborn-unchecked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/media-abortionists-lies-dehumanize-preborn-unchecked\/","title":{"rendered":"Media lets ‘expert’ abortionists spread lies, dehumanize preborn children unchecked"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As heartbeat bills continue to gain traction across the country, the abortion<\/a> industry is doing all it can to fight back — and its representatives aren’t above resorting to outright lies. The Guardian recently published an article<\/a> which argued that heartbeat bills, which ban abortions of preborn children after a heartbeat can be detected, usually at approximately six weeks gestation, are too extreme, citing the claims of “doctors” and “gynecologists.” What the Guardian did not mention, however, is that their sources are abortionists<\/em>, who — as usual — are making the media rounds spreading misinformation and propaganda.<\/p>\n

Jen Gunter, an abortionist<\/a> who has a history<\/a> of spreading misleading information, was unsurprisingly one of the sources for the Guardian’s article. \u201cThese bills present the idea that there\u2019s something that looks like what you or a person on the street would call a baby \u2013 a thing that\u2019s almost ready to go for a walk,\u201d she said. \u201cIn reality, you\u2019re talking about something that\u2019s millimeters in size and doesn\u2019t look anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Guardian then claimed that the “pulsing” and “throbbing” in a preborn child’s heart should not be “confused” with a heartbeat, with Gunter saying it would be more accurate to call them \u201cfetal pole cardiac activity\u201d bills.<\/p>\n

The idea that somehow “cardiac activity” has nothing to do with a heart, or with the beating of a heart, was already debunked<\/a> by Live Action News, and — as those like Gunter are probably well aware — when people know how early the preborn child’s heartbeat begins, it impacts their beliefs about abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sara Imershein, another abortionist<\/a>, chimed in to repeat the same idea, saying, \u201cWhen throbbing of some tissue begins, it\u2019s not a heart,\u201d Imershein said. \u201cIt\u2019s a process \u2013 the heart doesn\u2019t just pop up one day. It\u2019s not a little child that just appears and just grows larger.”<\/p>\n

Gunter and Imershein try valiantly, using euphemisms to claim that preborn children do not have real heartbeats, the science says otherwise. The Endowment for Human Development<\/a> (EHD) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the science of fetal development, with a vow of neutrality on controversial issues like abortion. This unbiased source explains just how fetal heartbeats work, including at an extremely young age — such as in this video of a preborn child at four weeks gestation.<\/p>\n