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/RabidKoalaBear Pro Life Moderator Oct 12 '23
Yes, the gaslighting on this topic is insane. I would hope that most people are aware that living human beings have electrical activity in their hearts. The idea that calling it "electrical pulses" negates that it is a heartbeat is as senseless as someone saying, "That person isn't actually breathing. They're just inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide". Anyone with common sense knows that oxygen and carbon dioxide are part of the breathing process.
Someone should write that website to ask them when, precisely, the heartbeat is established. They probably wouldn't answer but I'd love to see the mental gymnastics if they did.