The counselor emphasizes "heart tones," and answers, "Heart beat is when the fetus is active in the uterus--can survive--which is about seventeen or eighteen weeks."
However, biology textbooks and embryologists point out that the heart of an unborn child begins beating at around three weeks into the pregnancy, before most women realize they are pregnant.
The Planned Parenthood counselor then says, "A fetus is what's in the uterus right now. That is not a baby."
Dr. Polhaska, the abortion practitioner, insists "It's not a baby at this stage or anything like that."
He goes on to say that having an abortion will be "much safer than having a baby," warning, "You know, women die having babies."
While Wisconsin informed consent law requires that women receive medically accurate information before undergoing an abortion,