ABC Questions When a Baby’s Heartbeat Is Detected, What Some ‘Believe’

Nicholas Fondacaro | May 29, 2019
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There was another victory for the pro-life movement on Wednesday when the Louisiana legislature passed their own heartbeat law, which banned abortions after the unborn child’s heartbeat was first detected. But during ABC’s World News Tonight that evening, correspondent Steve Osunsami seemed to question if that was really a heartbeat being heard.

After anchor David Muir described the law as “the latest in a wave of challenges across this country”, Osunsami decried Louisiana for defying protesters and “join[ing] a chorus of states voting to outlaw abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, when supporters of the law believe that a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

So according to Osunsami, pro-lifers only “believe” that the heartbeat was being detected.

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