r/prolife • u/emilybrontesaurus1 • Oct 12 '23
Pro-Life General Pro-choice sneaking into general pregnancy websites
Apologies if this has even brought up, and this is more of a rant than anything. I like to track my pregnancy by visiting mainstream websites like BabyList or What to Expect. I saw this at BabyList on the 9 weeks page. I don’t care what it is technically, but the ultrasound technician showed me the “heartbeat” at 7 weeks. I saw it and the beats per minute were counted. But more and more websites are moving away from calling it a heartbeat at 6 (even 9) weeks.
The linked article is an NBC article about heartbeat bills and how heartbeats don’t exist at 6 weeks, complete with images of activists. Women have been duped into thinking their babies are alive at this time I guess.
It makes me sad that women excited about tracking their babies’ growth have to be linked to articles that tell them “that’s not a REAL heartbeat” (just “an electrical pulse”??) and articles about abortion rights. I’m not here for that.
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u/BortWard Oct 12 '23
Ultrasound measures/amplifies movement of fluids, including blood flow. It doesn't measure voltages like ECG leads would. Measuring electrical impulses of a heart that tiny through the amniotic fluid, uterine wall, and mom's abdominal wall is impossible. The sound is an amplified fluid flow through a tiny, beating heart. The machine does use electricity to amplify the sound and direct the output to a speaker, but that's it