New York Post

STACEY FETAL FUROR

‘No 6-wk. heartbeat’

- By EMILY CRANE

Progressiv­e Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams is facing fierce backlash after a clip surfaced of her declaring that there is “no such thing” as a fetal heartbeat at six weeks — insisting it’s just “manufactur­ed sound” designed to control women’s bodies.

“There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks,” the Peach State gubernator­ial candidate (right) said at an Atlanta event Tuesday.

“It is a manufactur­ed sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body.”

Abrams’ jaw-dropping remarks were shared on Twitter by the Republican National Committee late Wednesday — and the reaction against her was swift.

“Hearing my babies’ heartbeats at 6 weeks is hands down one of the most exciting, liberating and most beautiful moments of my entire life. Hands down,” Meghan McCain tweeted.

“Stacey Abrams is a very sick person to say this and somehow accuse doctors of faking fetal heartbeats. Full stop,” the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain seethed.

Dr. Kelli Ward, chairwoman of the Arizona GOP, also chimed in, tweeting: “This woman not only again proves she is a total idiot or a liar (or both), but also shows how gullible her supporters are.”

Sports commentato­r Michele Tafoya tweeted: “So, @staceyabra­ms . . . When my (male) doctors told me they could no longer hear my baby’s heartbeat . . . as I lost pregnancy after pregnancy . . . Was that fake, too? Did they manufactur­e the absence of my baby’s heartbeat in order to force me to terminate the pregnancy?”

A spokesman for Abrams’ campaign said she supports the guidelines establishe­d in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in which justices found a fetus was viable at about 23 weeks.

“Stacey Abrams has already stated her support for limits in line with Roe and Casey — and doctors have been clear that the so-called ‘heartbeat law’ is not medically accurate,” Alex Floyd said in a statement to The Post.

A fetal heartbeat can be detected by a vaginal ultrasound at between 5 ½ and 6 ½ weeks, when the fetal pole can be seen, according to the American Pregnancy Associatio­n.

The fetal pole is the first visible sign of a developing embryo.

During an interview on ABC’s “The View” last week, Abrams responded to GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham’s proposal to create a national standard outlawing abortion after 15 weeks, saying she supports the procedure until “the time of birth.”

“I believe that abortion is a medical decision, not a political decision,” she said. “And arbitrary, politicall­y defined timelines are deeply problemati­c because they ignore the reality of medical and physiologi­cal issues.”

Behold the battle of the bulge.

Two men who claim to have the world’s longest penis are locked in a literal you-know-what-measuring contest.

Roberto Esquivel Cabrera, of Mexico, was recognized for his 18.9-inch manhood by the World Record Academy in 2015 — but Jonah Falcon, of New York, says Cabrera is stretching the truth and he’s the big wiener, er, winner at 13.5 inches.

The dog ate my homework — and apparently drove her car.

An allegedly drunken woman told cops her pup was behind the wheel when she slammed into a bus stop in Wales, prosecutor­s said Wednesday.

Melissa Jenkins Johanson, 47, is accused of causing the crash in the town of Fishguard, then blaming her pooch.

Gourd help them! A tractor-trailer hauling pumpkins crashed and spilled its load onto Route 896 in Newark, Del., Tuesday night — causing a 12hour-long traffic jam and overnight cleanup effort, officials said.

Nobody was injured.

There’s a bug in this technology.

Japanese researcher­s have unveiled a remote-controlled “cyborg” cockroach for earthquake rescue missions.

The half-robotic insects can slip into hard-to-reach spaces by reacting to electric signals sent to their organs via a small “backpack,” they said.

An Ohio man who lost his nose ring five years ago breathed a sigh of relief when a doctor finally found it — in his lung.

Joey Lykins, 35, of Cincinnati, said he woke up one morning in 2017 and realized his ring was missing.

He forgot about it until, recently, after a violent coughing bout, he went to a hospital where an X-ray revealed the buried treasure. “I was like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me!’ ” he said. Natalie O’Neill, Wires

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