Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams claimed the concept of fetal heartbeats had been “manufactured” to deprive women of their right to choose.
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“There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks,” Abrams said during a panel at Ray Charles Performing Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
“It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body,” she added.
- Abrams has been a vocal opponent of GOP “heartbeat bills,” which restrict abortion after fetal heartbeats can be detected.
- Until recently, Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice groups characterized the cardiac activity picked up by ultrasound technology as a “heartbeat.”
