'Heartbeat' Bills Get the Science of Fetal Heartbeats All Wrong

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• Episode: 'Heartbeat' Bills Get the Science of Fetal Heartbeats All Wrong
• Website: WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More
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• Duration: 00:08:14
• Published: 2019-05-17 22:31

Last week, Georgia governor Brian Kemp—the narrow winner over Stacey Abrams in a contentious, sketchy election last year—signed into law a ban on abortions after more than six weeks of pregnancy. That made Georgia the sixth state to institute such a ban, and the fourth this year (Ohio’s elected officials put theirs in place in April), with seven more states kicking around the idea.