The Republican rhetoric is DESIGNED to mess with people's understanding of what is a viable life. This along with ultrasound requirements in seeking an abortion has taken lies and turned them into laws. There are laws requiring ultrasounds based in considerable Republican rhetoric.
A heartbeat is not a heartbeat without a heart. The minuscule pulse that Republican lawmakers use and I use that term loosely have lobbed on to is fraud. It is just that simple. The so called heartbeat restrictions on abortion should be challenged in court based in science.
A fully functional human heart is very complex in that it has it's own autonomous nervous system as well. The pulsing TISSUE of a fetus is not a functioning heart that will sustain an infant into adulthood. The entire idea of basing the beginning of life at the point there is a pulsing node of tissue is fraud, redefines life as any human being knows it making these laws dangerous. We don't need anyone adding confusion to what is an American, we already have judges that say money is a citizen as well.
The heatbeat law is political dogma that completely rejects science and endangers our democracy by allowing fraud to become law.
May 17, 2019
By Rachel Rettner
...But what exactly (click here) do we mean when we talk about a "fetal heartbeat" at six weeks of pregnancy? Although some people might picture a heart-shaped organ beating inside a fetus, this is not the case.
Rather, at six weeks of pregnancy, an ultrasound can detect "a little flutter in the area that will become the future heart of the baby," said Dr. Saima Aftab, medical director of the Fetal Care Center at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami. This flutter happens because the group of cells that will become the future "pacemaker" of the heart gain the capacity to fire electrical signals, she said....
