A viral Facebook post claims that “A fetus at 6 weeks has no more brain than a grain of rice.” The post references the Texas heartbeat abortion law, which prohibits abortion when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, usually at six weeks.
The first claim in the post—that a baby during the sixth week of gestation is the size of a grain of rice—is accurate.
Alec Dent is a former culture editor and staff writer for The Dispatch.
