{"id":276722,"date":"2022-09-24T13:38:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T18:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=276722"},"modified":"2022-09-26T14:06:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T19:06:06","slug":"pro-life-doctors-refute-blatant-misinformation-heartbeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-doctors-refute-blatant-misinformation-heartbeats\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life doctors refute ‘blatant misinformation’ on prenatal heartbeats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A series of pro-life doctors say Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams and others are incorrect to assert that preborn children’s heartbeats at six weeks are a \u201cmanufactured\u201d sound designed to oppress women.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe narrative that embryos don\u2019t have heartbeats at six weeks\u2019 gestation is a blatant example of misinformation that can be corrected by studying basic embryology,\u201d Dr. Donna Harrison, CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians Gynecologists<\/a>, told Live Action News.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cIn fact, at six weeks\u2019 gestation, the embryonic heart rhythmically contracts to pump blood through its arteries, which flows to the placenta to exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen. To call this anything other than a beating heart is dishonest, and serves only to dehumanize preborn people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Abrams, who is running for governor, made her comments<\/a> at the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center in Atlanta. “There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks,\u201d she said on Tuesday. \u201cIt is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Abrams seemed to be referring to the sound emitted from doppler technology, which allows doctors to track blood flow in preborn humans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Pro-abortion authors are still lying about prenatal heartbeats. Here\u2019s the truth.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Grazie Christie of the Catholic Association explained the process in a video<\/a> posted to Twitter. \u201cWhat we are hearing is a doppler signal of blood flowing in one direction and in the other,\u201d she said, noting that this can be detected as early as “five weeks LMP [after last menstrual period].”\u00a0<\/span>She added, \u201cthat\u2019s what we see when we put our cursor over the heart. We watch the blood \u2013 we can see the bloodflow on color doppler \u2026 as it changes directions, and we can watch the valves flutter and we can watch the walls of the heart also move as the baby\u2019s heart beats.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cInterestingly,\u201d she said, \u201cfetal heartrate is much faster than mom\u2019s. That\u2019s how we know we\u2019ve found the baby\u2019s heartbeat \u2026 so, Stacey Abrams is wrong. This is not just a manufactured thing. This is science. It\u2019s called the science of doppler \u2013 doppler signals. It has to do with sound waves. It\u2019s all very complicated but very beautiful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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On the science of the fetal doppler heartbeat. No, @staceyabrams<\/a> it's not a sound manufactured by men to oppress women. It's a heartbeat. pic.twitter.com\/pASjyhP33c<\/a><\/p>\n

— Grazie Christie, M.D. (@GChristiemd) September 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n