heart beat at six weeks. “There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks,” Abrams proclaimed to followers during an event at the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center in Atlanta on Tuesday. She went on to add, “It is a maStacey Abrams, Georgia Democratic Gubernatorial candidate, recently announced that there is no fetal nufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body.”
Abrams is running against incumbent Governor Brian Kemp in a rematch of the 2018 race which Kemp won by a razor’s edge 54,000 votes. She never conceded that race and instead implied that the vote was “stolen from Georgians.” Her fetal heartbeat claim was part of an attack on the Georgia heartbeat law which bans abortions after a heart beat can be detected. Abrams has been quoted in the last, when asked if there should be any restrictions on abortion, as saying, “I believe that abortion is a medical decision, not a political decision.Arbitrary politically-defined timelines are deeply problematic because they ignore the reality of medical and physiological issues.”
Abortion is a key issue being used by the Democratic Party as part of a strategy attempting to obfuscate or at least deflect inflation and rising crime rates in many urban areas. A recent Marist poll of Georgian voters found that only about 16% made abortion a top issue whereas 40% indicated that inflation was their primary concern.
Fact checkers have aligned the statement to their political ideologies. Supporters of unrestricted abortion claim that there is no heartbeat while pro life proponents support the notion of a heartbeat at six weeks. Several sources allude to the fact that the Planned Parenthood website had referenced a heartbeat at six weeks but the statement was removed after the Supreme Court Decision changing abortion to a state issue rather than a federal issue.
