The baby’s brain activity also begins at about the same time as the heartbeat. While the heartbeat is a simple enough thing to measure, the brain activity is more significant.
Having an active nervous system means that the baby’s brain—its “central processing system,” if you will—is actively processing input from its body and the environment. That means that the baby is able to feel the abortion process.
I would love to see the abortionists pressed on the fact that the baby has the neurological capacity to feel the abortion, and press them on whether their profit is really worth encouraging women to get pregnant with and then to kill sentient babies. Although I am not certain if that can be expressed adequately using the fifth to sixth grade level of language that is typically used on TV.
The legal definition of death is the absence of brain waves, ergo the presence of brain waves is the indication of life.