{"id":252599,"date":"2021-09-06T08:35:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T13:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=252599"},"modified":"2021-09-05T21:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T02:36:46","slug":"texas-media-lies-heartbeats-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/texas-media-lies-heartbeats-again\/","title":{"rendered":"In light of Texas Heartbeat Act, media lies about preborn heartbeats… again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the heels of the Supreme Court decision to allow<\/a> the Texas Heartbeat Act to stand, abortion advocates have been working frantically to undermine it. From comparisons to terrorists<\/a> to fretting about more disabled preborn babies being allowed to live<\/a>, there is seemingly no tactic the abortion industry won’t use try to convince the public that the Texas Heartbeat Act is bad. Unsurprisingly, this includes lying about the indisputable science behind prenatal development, and the media has been doing it for years (see examples here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Newsweek reported<\/a> on the issue by claiming that at six weeks gestation, it’s not really<\/em> a heartbeat, citing an interview with Dr. Saima Aftab in Live Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Aftab, the heartbeat detected on an ultrasound is “a little flutter in the area that will become the future heart of the baby,” and further claimed this was due to the firing of electrical signals, nothing more. “The flutter is different from what we picture as a beating heart and can’t be heard by doctors via a stethoscope,” Newsweek continued. “When a doctor listens to a patient’s heartbeat with a stethoscope what they are detecting is the opening and closing of cardiac valves. Valves that don’t yet exist at this stage of development.”<\/p>\n

Newsweek further pointed to Dr. Jennifer Gunter, a notorious former abortionist who has\u00a0called preborn children zombies<\/a> and made spurious claims regarding\u00a0preborn children and abortion survivors<\/a>. Gunter, Newsweek reported, told Planned Parenthood, “The politicians know exactly what they are doing as [the term ‘heartbeat’] is a way of making a 4 mm thickening next to a yolk sac seem like it is almost ready to walk.”<\/p>\n

Is this the case, or is it abortion proponents who are making it seem like killing a human being with a heartbeat is of no more consequence than clipping a toenail?<\/p>\n