Last May, The New York Times decided to refer to a baby’s heartbeat in the womb with a term designed to camouflage there was a real baby there, using the term “embryonic pulsing” to describe the heartbeat. On Monday, the Times decided to utilize another euphemism for the baby’s heartbeat, referring to it as “the pulsing of what becomes the fetus’s heart.”
In both cases, the article in May and the article on Monday, the Times was discussing the state of Louisiana. In May, in an article titled, “Louisiana Moves to Ban Abortions After a Heartbeat Is Detected,” the Times wrote:
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