{"id":251438,"date":"2021-08-17T08:43:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=251438"},"modified":"2021-08-16T16:55:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T21:55:29","slug":"planned-parenthood-texas-heartbeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-texas-heartbeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion irony: Planned Parenthood believes Texas heartbeat law is ‘cruelty’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(National Review<\/a>) This summer, Texas passed its own heartbeat law protecting preborn children after their […] heartbeat is detected during pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Of course, it didn\u2019t take long for Planned Parenthood, Whole Wom[a]n\u2019s Health, and their allies across the state to\u00a0file suit<\/a>\u00a0against Texas officials in response. The law will take effect on September 1, and the abortion lobby is desperate to quickly block it from going into effect.<\/p>\n

Unlike other states\u2019 heartbeat bills, the Texas Heartbeat Act is exclusively enforced through private lawsuits in state court.\u00a0Because officials in Texas and across the country openly state they will refuse to enforce abortion laws<\/a>, Texas placed enforcement in the hands of private citizens. Incidentally, without government enforcement, there is no constitutional violation.<\/p>\n

The Texas Heartbeat Act accomplishes what other heartbeat laws sought to: It prohibits killing a preborn child with a heartbeat. A heartbeat is a clear and scientifically acknowledged indicator of life; in fact, we use the loss of a heartbeat as a sign of clinical death in hospitals. Ending a beating human heart ends someone. It ends a human. And human beings matter. Human beings are worthy of protection, and the importance of a growing human in the womb cannot be undermined in good conscience.<\/p>\n

Typically, preborn heartbeats are detected between five and eight weeks of pregnancy. In Texas, 85 percent of abortions are performed\u00a0during\u00a0<\/em>this stage of fetal development. That means, in practice, the new law will protect tens of thousands of preborn children every year in Texas from elimination by abortion.<\/p>\n

Abortion advocates duplicitously twist abortion-law discussions, taking a legal measure designed to prevent killing innocent children and turning it into an attack on women. Planned Parenthood\u2019s president went so far as to state in an\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0that \u201ccruelty is the point\u201d of Texas\u2019s Heartbeat Act. That irony should not be lost on you.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Calling the Texas Heartbeat Act an abortion \u2018bounty\u2019 is dishonest rhetoric<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In reality, abortion is cruel. And nothing is more venerable than protecting innocent and vulnerable human life from an unwarranted, unnecessary, and unjust death. A preborn child with a heartbeat is a living human being. Texas\u2019s Heartbeat Act extends the same rights that human beings living outside the womb have to human beings living inside the womb.<\/p>\n

There is a bizarre effort on the part of abortion clinics and activists to obscure the fact that the presence of a fetal heartbeat evinces life. In particular, abortion advocates love to cite the positively Orwellian doublespeak put out by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), an organization that describes a fetal heartbeat as an \u201celectrically induced flickering of a portion of the fetal tissue that will become the heart<\/a>.\u201d \u201cElectronically induced flickering\u201d must be the newest \u201cclump of cells\u201d argument.<\/p>\n

This is a common tactic of the pro-choice crowd, always shrouding abortion in unscientific euphemisms. They have conveniently rebranded abortion for decades. The self-proclaimed party of science has consistently rejected and undermined science, logic, and their consciences when it comes to life in the womb. And they\u2019ve made billions this way. The reality is that the baby\u2019s organs, from the brain and the heart to the lungs and the liver, develop continuously throughout pregnancy. The fact that they aren\u2019t fully formed\u00a0adult\u00a0<\/em>organs does not mean they aren\u2019t organs at all. The human brain, in particular, doesn\u2019t finish developing until well\u00a0after\u00a0<\/em>a baby is born. According to ACOG, your infant daughter doesn\u2019t have a brain; she has a portion of electrically stimulated tissue that will\u00a0become<\/em>\u00a0a brain as she develops.<\/p>\n