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The thing about fetuses having heartbeats and stuff technically isn't made up, it just doesn't make any sense.
Ummm, the heartbeat thing is kinda made up though. A 6 week old fetus doesn't have a heart.
Edit: For the forced birthers, an electrical signal to an area that will eventually be a heart isn't a heartbeat. There's no heart, there's nothing being pumped, there's no muscle contracting, it doesn't make a sound. See my comment below.
Huh. I guess now that you mention it, it never really seems like it had a heart in the picture.
Yup.
"Although some people might picture a heart-shaped organ beating inside a fetus, this is not the case.
Rather, at six weeks of pregnancy, an ultrasound can detect "a little flutter in the area that will become the future heart of the baby," said Dr. Saima Aftab, medical director of the Fetal Care Center at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami. This flutter happens because the group of cells that will become the future "pacemaker" of the heart gain the capacity to fire electrical signals, she said. But the heart is far from fully formed at this stage, and the "beat" isn't audible; if doctors put a stethoscope up to a woman's belly this early on in her pregnancy, they would not hear a heartbeat."
https://www.livescience.com/65501-fetal-heartbeat-at-6-weeks-explained.html
Interesting.