The ‘Fetal-Heartbeat Debunking’ Squad

The argument for abortion is pseudoscience all the way down. Nothing has exposed that reality more handily in recent years than heartbeat bills, which disallow abortion after doctors can detect a fetal heartbeat, usually at about six weeks’ gestation.

Those opposed to these bills often sound a bit like conspiracy theorists. Take a recent example from Stacey Abrams: “There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks. It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body.”