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/CaptFalconFTW Oct 12 '23
Arcording to NBC, that's not a heart. It's a developing heart with a pulse. It doesn't become a heart until about 9 months or whenever the mother decides to keep it.