 Every year, millions of expecting couples go into their OB/GYN’s office. While there, the nurse or doctor places a device on the abdomen of the woman, which then broadcasts into the room (if all is well) the rapid, pulsing sound of the heart of her unborn child.
Texas’ Heartbeat Law, the first heartbeat law to actually go into effect anywhere in the United States, speaks directly to this profound and moving reality: the reality that a baby’s heartbeat begins far, far earlier in pregnancy than most people realize, giving testimony to the existence of another, unique, fully alive human being. Even though we know that the life of that child actually began weeks earlier, at the moment of conception, the heartbeat is a concrete proof for us of the child’s existence – a proof that we can actually hear with our own ears...
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