Singer Charlie Puth compares his preborn baby's heartbeat to a dance song

Singer Charlie Puth recently shared an Instagram post that featured his preborn baby's heartbeat, in which he acknowledged the baby's humanity and shared some related musical insights. Though Puth is celebrating the life of he and his wife's preborn child, when Roe v. Wade was overturned, he encouraged people to donate money to abortion funds, which support the killing of valuable preborn children... just like his own baby.

Key Takeaways:

• Singer Charlie Puth recently shared a post on social media in which he marveled over his preborn baby's heartbeat. The baby is due in March.

• After Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, Puth encouraged people to donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds.

• Every preborn child is a member of the human species who has an inherent right to life.

• Encouraging the intentional killing of those humans due to their arbitrary characteristics (size, level of development, environment, or degree of dependency) is discriminatory. The right to kill innocent humans is not a right at all.

The Details:

Puth has been sharing about his wife's (Brooke Sansone) pregnancy on Instagram, and has been openly excited about the upcoming birth of his child, who is due in March. In a recent video, he played his baby's heartbeat, and not only acknowledged the humanity of the preborn child, but compared the heartbeat in different areas of human development to music.

"I was listening to our baby's heartbeat the other day. The heartbeat's like a dance song. And it made me realize our heartbeats, from the moment we're born to when we get older, are directly correlated to — you guessed it — music," he said.

The human heart begins to beat well before we're born — at about 22 days after fertilization — though it does not yet have four chambers:

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Puth continued:

"A [preborn] baby's heartbeat is about twice as fast as an adult's, about 140 to 160 BPMs. The baby's growing quickly. Everything's urgent. You know what else feels urgent and primal? Dance music. So when humans dance to music, that's at this tempo here. We're mimicking the pulse that we started with. The heartbeat's like a dance song. 

Then, when the baby is born, the heart rate slows to 110 to 130 beats per minute. Notice how many nursery songs are at that tempo, too, which is why this music usually plays when you're rocking or cradling a baby. 

And as we mature, the heart rate and breathing settle around 80 to 100 BPMs. So music in this range feels right because the rhythm and the tempo matches how we live. Inhale, exhale, step, step. And as we approach old age, slower heart, slower pace. 60 to 70 BPMs."

At this point, Puth became openly emotional, and began crying.

"I don't know why I'm crying now. I know why," he said. "Because music is amazing and it directly correlates to human life. All of us are capable to make art from within. And I'm just here on the internet to show you that you can do it too."

In previous posts, Puth referred to himself and his wife as "mom and dad" while playing his baby's heartbeat, and joyously broke the news of the pregnancy during a music video.

The Backstory:

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision. At that time, Puth spoke out in defense of abortion, calling the decision a "crisis," adding:

"Regardless of anyone's own personal or religious beliefs, I firmly believe that it is not the government's role to tell any person what they can or cannot do with their own body — it should continue to be their choice. I know that my words might be welcomed by some and hated by others, but I make music from my heart, so I must speak what's on my heart.

Please consider donating to the National Network of Abortion Funds, which supports over 80 organizations."

... Eighty organizations that intentionally end the lives of human beings who are just as valuable and worthy of life as Puth's own preborn child.

Abortion intentionally ends the life of human being who is developing in his or her mother's womb. It is not a compassionate act. It kills, sometimes brutally (through starvation, dismemberment, lethal injection to the heart or head, etc.), a vulnerable human being who cannot defend himself.

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While it may be popular to recite the idea that "it is not the government's role to tell any person what they can or cannot do with their own body," there are flaws in this thinking.

Telling persons what they can or cannot do with their bodies is, quite literally, what laws do. Laws tell us that we may not use certain illicit drugs in our own bodies; they tell us we may not assault or rob others; they even tell us we must use seat belts to help protect our own bodies in the event of a car accident. And ultimately, it most certainly is a legitimate function of government to protect the lives of innocent human beings from being unjustly killed.

Those who are not yet born are not treated equally in our society and are discriminated against and killed due to their size, level of development, environment, and degree of dependency.

But none of those qualities makes them any less human.

Why It Matters:

Many people oppose abortion while believing the government shouldn't prevent women from having them. Yet as Live Action founder and president Lila Rose has previously pointed out, this is a fallacy.

“Those who are 'personally pro-life' in an effort to be fair towards other people’s views actually put forth a view that is very unfair. Under this view, their own preborn children have human life and human rights, but other people’s children may not,” Rose said. “If a person is going to be ‘personally pro life’ and grant their own preborn children the right to life, then shouldn’t they grant that right to every other preborn child?”

She also explained that abortion is, quite simply, a form of child abuse, and that no one would ever accept the idea of being "personally against" atrocities like slavery, rape, or genocide.

“A person would never say that they only ‘personally oppose child abuse,'” she said.

“Imagine if someone said, ‘I’m personally against slavery, but I wouldn’t stop anyone else from owning slaves.’ Or, ‘I’m personally against the Nazi Holocaust, but wouldn’t want to stop anyone else from persecuting Jews,'” Rose said. “We would think they were terribly confused or just cowardly.”

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The Bottom Line:

Puth's tribute to his preborn child is beautiful and moving, but it is disappointing to know that he would support the deaths of other preborn children who have an inherent right to life, just as much as his own child.