Sunday, May 19, 2019

Let's start with a little information


Since our misogynist, Christianist ignoramuses are determined to preserve fetal heartbeats, it's probably worth a short explanation of what this phenomenon is that they hold so dear:

... 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.

But the heart is far from fully formed at this stage, and the "beat" isn't audible; if doctors put a stethoscope up to a woman's belly this early on in her pregnancy, they would not hear a heartbeat, Aftab told Live Science. (What's more, it isn't until the eighth week of pregnancy that the baby is called a fetus; prior to that, it's still considered an embryo, according to the Cleveland Clinic.)

It's been only in the last few decades that doctors have even been able to detect this flutter at six weeks, thanks to the use of more-sophisticated ultrasound technologies, Aftab said. Previously, the technology wasn't advanced enough to detect the flutter that early on in pregnancy.

LiveScience

It's not about the flutter; it's about keeping women down and punishing those who stick their heads up. It always has been.

Angry women matter.

1 comment:

  1. Yes no heart even formed yet, much less a brain...really just a collection of cells...

    Tell me this...how does a minority far right religious group get to control our laws against what the majority want?
    How does this happen in a democracy? How is this not like Sharia law?

    Where is separation of church and state? If one doesn’t believe in abortion being right, then don’t have one.

    Ireland, a very Catholic country just legalized abortion and it’s free under their healthcare provisions.
    And Iran has less prohibited abortion laws than these states in the US.

    This is so wrong on many fronts...incest, rape, investigations if you miscarry.

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