lifenews.com
2026-05-22
So, whenever I talk about embryonic hearts there's usually a few people who push back, both actually pro-life and pro-choice people, who push back because, they argue, hearts don't determine personhood. Yeah, I agree with you. I don't talk about embryonic hearts because I think having a heart makes you a morally valuable person. I talk about embryonic hearts because they matter to a lot of people, whether they make you a morally valuable person or not.
I think there are a lot of people on the other side, pro-choice activists in particular, who subtly recognize this, which is why they have spent so much time trying to convince the public that embryos don't have hearts. I think they do this because discussions of hearts and heartbeats directly undermines the "clump of cells" rhetoric.
I think there are a lot of people who don't know much about fetal development, because why would they, and they mistakenly believe that the embryo is literally like a sphere of cells for much longer than is the case. And I think that the more we talk about fetal development, the more uncomfortable people get with abortion. It doesn't mean it's because they think that any given point in fetal development suddenly makes the embryo a person.
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