Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Tuesday signed the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, which prevents an abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected.
The bill uses the term “‘detectable human heartbeat’ [which] means embryonic or fetal cardiac activity or the steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the heart within the gestational sac.” Fetal heartbeats are generally detectable at six weeks gestation.
This move is meant to equate a heartbeat with personhood. The bill states that Georgia intends “to recognize unborn children as natural persons.”
