"Fetal heartbeat" is one of those phrases that makes me want to hurt someone in some significant and memorable way. A vibrating partch of tissue -- without valves or chambers, without veins or arteries, without blood, much less blood being pumped -- is not even remotely a "heart", much less a beating one.
I'd be willing to compromise on "viability," but even that is a matter of some debate. It would take someone far smarter than myself to find a solution to this problem, but I'm tired of this issue being demagogued.
"Fetal heartbeat" is one of those phrases that makes me want to hurt someone in some significant and memorable way. A vibrating partch of tissue -- without valves or chambers, without veins or arteries, without blood, much less blood being pumped -- is not even remotely a "heart", much less a beating one.
I'd be willing to compromise on "viability," but even that is a matter of some debate. It would take someone far smarter than myself to find a solution to this problem, but I'm tired of this issue being demagogued.