BlindBoo
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Have any of you libs ever heard a heartbeat??? it doesn't go boo boom boo boom and it doesn't sound like an electrical impulse...it has a squishy sound...a very unique sound that can not be mistaken for anything else...go to youtube and listen to a heartbeat....
There is no sound to the events the anti-choice crowd calls a heart beat in a 6 week old embryo.
"Rather, 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."
Is a 'fetal heartbeat' really a heartbeat at 6 weeks?
What exactly do we mean when we talk about a "fetal heartbeat" at six weeks of pregnancy?
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
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