Fri Sep 23, 2022 – 2:07 pm EDT
ATLANTA (LifeSiteNews) – Six-week fetal heartbeats are “manufactured” for the purpose of controlling women, Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams claimed Tuesday.
Abrams, the former Georgia House minority leader best known for persistent false claims about having the state’s gubernatorial election stolen from her in 2018, made the comments during an event at the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center.
“There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks,” said Abrams, who has been calling heartbeat-based abortion bans “evil” since 2019. “It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body.”
Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate 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.”pic.twitter.com/DssWo1HpjK
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 22, 2022
That fetal heartbeats can be detected as early as six weeks was not seriously disputed until pro-life lawmakers decided to highlight the fact in heartbeat laws, which prohibit most abortions based on a criterion that is intuitively understandable to most people as
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