heartbeat

But in Texas, where Barnica lived, so long as there’s a fetal heartbeat, those procedures are illegal.

And so she was told she would have to wait until the heartbeat stopped.

At that second ER visit, her fetus still had a heartbeat.

By the time she went to the third ER, she was bleeding and in acute distress; still, she was given not one but two ultrasounds to confirm that there was no fetal heartbeat to be found before she was admitted to the ICU.

They have a heartbeat and it isn’t a faint one, with winnable games against 2-6 Miami and 2-7 New England coming up.