Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Stacey Abrams: 'No Such Thing' As A Fetal Heartbeat At 6 Weeks, Blames 'MANUFACTURED' Sounds" video.

@firefighter0585 She said brain dead. A coma is much different.
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And a ten year old girl should have to carry it to term, hm?
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@marieroxylox1456 I admit it, I could not listen to her, I spontaneously tuned out. I didn't know.
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"Independent?" Great, then it can be removed from . . . oh wait.
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@ilikelichens It is no different from the pictures of the cosmos from the Webb telescope that are color enhanced.
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@anthonytwohill9726 I've been anti-mandate as well. Of course.
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No, lol. The "sound" refers to the sound waves it uses to bounce off of the structures it is probing, in order to form a picture. "Also called sonography, [it] is an imaging method that uses sound waves to produce images of structures within the body." You're really off. Say, I have an idea: people who don't know stuff should not control the lives of others. They should not rely on criminal law to force others to do what they want. They should rely on First Amendment rights and persuasion.
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@christopher92051 No it doesn't. Ultrasound uses sound waves to create an image. It does not detect sound or amplify sound. It uses the waves it itself generates to create images. You need some science education, and not to be too lazy to open up a reliable reference online or to go to the library. This technology has nothing to do with pregnancy as such; it was used for imaging other organs before it came into use to image embryos and fetuses.
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@christopher92051 Where did I say you lied? You made a mistake. You think you know what you do not know. People who do that shouldn't be able to force others to do what they want. You can't even quote back to me what I said accurately, but you support new criminal laws? I don't think you're in a position to foist some more of those on the rest of us, . . . but since when do qualifications matter? I guess the joke is on me, huh?
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@christopher92051 A lie is deliberate.
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Six-week embryos do not have hearts. Many states allow the elective abortion of early fetuses, which most certainly do have hearts. Basic biology.
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@anthonytwohill9726 You are right. The corrected definition is correct, and clearer than the original one. A six-week embryo does not have a heart. Many states allow the elective abortion of early fetuses, which do have hearts. Those are the biological facts.
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True
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Eggs offered at the store for human consumption are almost never fertilized. Were you kidding? Er, no one is a cannibal, not even the paleo diet crowd. Though that would be, in certain cases, quite consistent with the paleolithic period.
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Actually, you do have to have a heart to have a heartbeat. A six-week embryo does not have a heart. On the other hand, many states permit the elective abortion of fetuses which do have hearts. Suddenly everyone gets to have their own biology. I thought we saw where that went during the pandemic.
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In general you're right, but this wasn't changing facts, at least not this time. The new definition is correct.
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@aalvarez2914 not what I said . . . but this is the Internet . . . you get to say what I said whether I said it or not . . .
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@aalvarez2914 An actual heart with four chambers appears at about 9 to 10 weeks, and at about the same time a true heartbeat, controlled by the central nervous system, appears. This is a qualitative difference: it marks the moment when an embryo becomes an early fetus, and miscarriage becomes far less likely. (Miscarriage of embryos is very common; by the time there is a heart, the risk plummets.) It is true that many states, including mine, make no differentiation and allow elective abortion at that stage as well. But no, at six weeks, that is not a heart.
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@rhysqqq Is the oven risking its own life to bake? Wow, I've heard of cyborgs but this is a dystopia that makes me glad I'm mortal.
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@aalvarez2914 It has nothing to do with semantics at all, but with biology. Anyway, you're right, I don't have a dog in this fight. The rich will come to my state to have abortions -- which isn't wonderful, but all right . . . so what? The less well off, who are disproportionately POC, will not be able to afford it. I don't see a downside in the demographics of this issue, frankly. It would be a welcome shift as far as I'm concerned.
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A six-week embryo does not have a heart. Some states permit abortion of early fetuses that do indeed have hearts. These are the biological facts. You can take electrical impulses and create a sound with them, just like you can take sounds and create a picture with them. There's nothing remarkable about this. It's not nonsense.
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Six weeks is not an fetus, it is an embryo. Most developed societies have elective abortion at that stage. Robby is wrong. It is not a heartbeat, yet. It is not a heart yet. Making corrections is fine. Abrams sounded insensitive. That is the issue.
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@AB-ol5uz At six weeks, the tissues that will become the heart do not have chambers yet, and the impulses are not controlled by the central nervous system, so they are not a true heartbeat. On the other hand, all of that develops well before the end of the "first trimester," at about 9 to 10 weeks, and many states permit elective abortion well after that. Say, I have an idea. Persuade people to reject abortion. Don't create new criminal laws to force them to do what you want them to do. Persuade them instead.
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Don't worry. You have the trans activists taking care of that for you.
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@johnv6421 You mean like men, or just pregnant people?
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A six-week embryo does not have a heart yet. Early fetuses that we are permitted to abort in many states do have hearts. Those are the biological facts.
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@xijujangliti4906 I'm not extreme. In Europe, elective abortion of fetuses is strongly disfavored, legally and culturally. Embryos are a different matter, for a reason. About the time the embryo has a four-chambered heart, it becomes a fetus and the risk of miscarriage drops to a fraction of what it was at 6 weeks. That is biology, not ideology. BUT HAVE IT YOUR WAY. It has to be your way. I know.
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