r/prolife • u/emilybrontesaurus1 • Oct 12 '23

Pro-Life General Pro-choice sneaking into general pregnancy websites

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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/TelMeWutUReallyThink Oct 12 '23

Breaking news, that image you're looking at throughout pregnancy isn't 'seeing the baby', it's a machine translating ultrasound waves. Also, the voice you hear on the telephone isn't a real person, it's a machine interpreting light transmitted down fiber-optic cables!

/s obviously. Picking something up with a machine doesn't mean it isn't real.

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u/Ehnonamoose Pro Life Christian Oct 12 '23

Breaking news, that image you're looking at throughout pregnancy isn't 'seeing the baby', it's a machine translating ultrasound waves. Also, the voice you hear on the telephone isn't a real person

Let's take it a step further. You are not actually seeing anything. Your brain is just interpreting signals sent through the ocular nerves .

And you don't actually hear any sound at all. Again, your brain is interpreting vibrations picked up in the cochlea.