Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦

Dear @cnn, stop using non-scientific framing.

There IS NO HEART at “six weeks” (four weeks after conception). There are NO developed organs..

So there CANNOT BE a heartbeat.

The embryo is less than 1/4” in length

Dammit.

https://kegill.medium.com/dear-news-media-its-not-a-heartbeat-when-there-is-no-heart-5e6c5c27084f

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Dear News Media: It’s not a heartbeat when there is no heart

We’re inundated with headlines trumpeting the latest abortion ban. Opening paragraphs describe bans that kick in after detecting a fetal “heartbeat” about four weeks after conception.* That’s…

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Show threadPrickly Pam (D-PA)Sep 20, 2024

@kegill

Exactly.

There is supposedly some electric signaling at that stage. But there is no fucking Heart.

Take a look and see if you see anything that could be construed as a heart:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/pregnancy-weeks-abortion-tissue?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

What a pregnancy actually looks like before 10 weeks – in pictures

In 13 US states, abortion is banned even in the earliest stages of pregnancy. But we rarely see what such tissue really looks like

The Guardian