AOC Gets Blowback For Ignorant, Disturbing Abortion Tweet

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Soon after Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R) signed legislation known as the "heartbeat bill," which bans abortions in the state when the unborn child’s heartbeat can be detected, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) weighed in with a tweet critics are slamming as callous and misinformed.

"'6 weeks pregnant' = 2 weeks late on your period," the socialist posted. "Most of the men writing these bills don’t know the first thing about a woman’s body outside of the things they want from it. It’s relatively common for a woman to have a late period + not be pregnant. So this is a backdoor ban."

Of course, being six-weeks pregnant is a lot more than just being late on your period — ask any woman who’s miscarried or had a baby. At that time in a pregnancy, the unborn child is developing facial features and has a beating heart. Moreover, Ocasio-Cortez is misinformed about the authors of the legislation, a majority of whom are women, not men.

Pro-life advocates were quick to rebuff the Congresswoman. Live Action founder Lila Rose, for example, highlighted the unborn child’s development at six weeks.

"[Baby Center] explains a baby’s amazing development at 6 weeks: ‘The nose, mouth, and ears that you'll spend so much time kissing in eight months are beginning to take shape...His heart is beating about 100 to 160 times a minute...and blood is beginning to course through his body,'" she wrote.

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