Some time in the course of yesterday, the editors at The Atlantic magazine opened a pre-med textbook, read one of the hundreds of texts they got from doctors, or just sat quietly on a couch and pondered the question: Does a fetus have a heart?
Now, to you, that sounds like a really stupid question. Fetuses grow into babies which grow in to (wait for it) editors at The Atlantic (if they’re profoundly unlucky), so, yes, duh, they have hearts so, ergo, they have heartbeats. But these editors were stuck in an ontological argument only Samuel Beckett would have conceived and they actually posted a story in their latest mag that fetal heartbeats seen in ultrasound at six weeks are “imaginary.”
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