{"id":1655219,"date":"2022-09-23T13:17:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T17:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1655219"},"modified":"2022-09-23T13:21:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T17:21:25","slug":"not-really-a-heartbeat-clump-of-cells-property-not-people-its-the-same-old-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-really-a-heartbeat-clump-of-cells-property-not-people-its-the-same-old-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Really A Heartbeat, Clump Of Cells, Property Not People \u2014 It\u2019s The Same Old Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnot-really-a-heartbeat-clump-of-cells-property-not-people-its-the-same-old-lie%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1655219&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Georgia gubernatorial candidate and election denier Stacey Abrams used an event earlier this week to spread her denial of scientific reality, claiming that babies who have been in the womb for six weeks don\u2019t have a heartbeat, and that the pulse millions of parents rejoice to hear on their childrens\u2019 ultrasounds is actually \u201ca manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman\u2019s body.\u201d (Note: Even Planned Parenthood <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/community-family\/planned-parenthood-changes-website-abrams-heartbeat-comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a> a six-week-old unborn baby possessed a \u201cbasic beating heart\u201d until the abortion provider scrubbed the line from its website to comply with Abrams\u2019 rhetoric.)<\/p>\n<p>In recent years and culminating in response to the overturn of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, abortion proponents have been more willing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/05\/03\/remarks-by-president-biden-before-air-force-one-departure-15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admit<\/a> that a child in his mother\u2019s womb is still a <em>child<\/em>, and to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/10\/why-todays-left-is-willing-to-admit-abortion-kills-a-child-and-still-support-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">advocate for the right to kill him anyway<\/a>. A worldview that places self-gratification above all moral responsibilities to others can convince its adherents that even child sacrifice is justifiable in service to the idol of self. But maybe Democrats realized that\u2019s not a popular way to win elections because they\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/22\/vulnerable-democrats-refuse-to-denounce-stacey-abramss-heartbeat-denialism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crawling back<\/a> to the bogus claim that unborn babies aren\u2019t real people.<\/p>\n<p>Where have we heard that bad-faith argument before?<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, the common <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1573040773087510531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">talking point<\/a> was that \u201cit\u2019s just a clump of cells.\u201d While some still try to make that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2022-09-11\/fetal-personhood-theology-philosophy-mother-fetus-complex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">argument<\/a>, the more women see their babies\u2019 faces, hands and feet, and movements on ultrasound screens \u2014 and the more horrific footage emerges of recognizable baby body parts being ripped apart in abortions \u2014 the less people buy the argument that unborn babies are static blobs of lifeless matter. It\u2019s also a hard argument for Democrats to make when they support abortion up to the point of birth; you might convince an ignorant person that a baby in the first few weeks of gestation is \u201cjust a clump of cells,\u201d but that\u2019s a hard sell about a baby at 38 weeks (or 24, or 15).<\/p>\n<p>At 15 weeks \u2014 the gestational age at which a Republican bill currently proposed in the Senate would ban abortions, earning Democrat panic \u2014 babies <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/15\/12-facts-everyone-should-know-about-babies-at-15-weeks-of-gestation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">can<\/a> feel pain, their hearts are \u201cpumping approximately 26 quarts of blood daily,\u201d their skeletons and organs are formed, they can start moving their limbs, and they can taste and hear. Even the pro-abortion corporate media were <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/22\/media-marvel-at-babies-reactions-to-flavor-in-the-womb-while-championing-their-demise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fawning<\/a> just Thursday over a study showing that babies in the womb made different facial expressions in reaction to what their mothers ate.<\/p>\n<p>In blatant denial of scientific reality, these arguments used to deny the personhood of unborn babies have another <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/24\/why-democrats-oppose-emancipation-for-the-unborn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">predecessor<\/a>: the bogus claims that Africans weren\u2019t fully \u201chuman\u201d made in an attempt to justify enslaving them.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of slavery often claimed their slaves were property instead of people, denying their humanity to justify the denial of their rights. In his infamous opinion in <em>Dred Scott v. Sandford<\/em>, Chief Justice Roger Taney <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/60\/393\/#tab-opinion-1964280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a> that \u201cthe enslaved African race were not intended to be included\u201d in the phrase \u201call men are created equal,\u201d reflecting the argument that if slaves did not have full personhood, then their lives and rights could be trampled. Slaveowners appealed to hack \u201cscience\u201d suggesting that slaves felt pain less or had smaller brains, much like abortion proponents claim unborn babies \u201cdon\u2019t really have heartbeats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The denial of African slaves\u2019 humanity was a \u201cvicious, obvious lie meant to justify and rationalize horrific violence against human beings whose God-given rights interfere with the conveniences and lifestyles of the ruling regime,\u201d as The Federalist\u2019s Sean Davis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1573041580839424000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">put it<\/a>, a description that exactly describes modern Democrats\u2019 anti-science denial of the unborn\u2019s humanity.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same old lie. The party that pretends to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2021\/nov\/28\/i-represent-science-fauci-claims-gop-detractors-ar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">represent science<\/a>\u201d is once again spouting flat-earther claims to excuse taking others\u2019 lives for political and financial profit. And it\u2019s just as evil and wildly untrue as it was before.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Purnell is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. Follow her work on Twitter @_etreynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia gubernatorial candidate and election denier Stacey Abrams used an event earlier this week to spread her denial of scientific reality, claiming that babies who have been in the womb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":1655221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1655221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}