Separating head from heart: Stacey Abrams’s heartbeat claim explained

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Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams’s assertion this week that a baby’s heartbeat at six weeks in utero does not exist and that women who hear it at their doctor’s office are hearing a “manufactured sound” touched off an emotional debate about fetal development.

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