Report: Fetuses Don't Feel Pain

FOXNews ^ | 8/23/05 | AP

[workerbee]

A review of medical evidence has found that fetuses likely don't feel pain until the final months of pregnancy, a powerful challenge to abortion opponents who hope that discussions about fetal pain will make women think twice about ending pregnancies.

Critics angrily disputed the findings and claimed the report is biased.

"They have literally stuck their hands into a hornet's nest," said Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand, a fetal pain (search) researcher at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, who believes fetuses as young as 20 weeks old feel pain. "This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word -- definitely not."

[brivette]

What hogwash.

[Michael Goldsberry]

Bravo Sierra!

[One Proud Dad]

BS.

[thoughtomator]

How can they possibly know that for sure?

Are these the same folks that told us that starvation is euphoric?

[Pyro7480]

In the next breath, the jokers who will defend this study will say that fish caught on hooks and chickens bound for KFC feel pain. PATHETIC!

[SaveTheChief]

A review of medical evidence has found that fetuses likely don't feel pain until the final months of pregnancy, a powerful challenge to abortion opponents who hope that discussions about fetal pain will make women think twice about ending pregnancies.

How does this justify the murder of an innocent life?

[eureka!]

I heard this on ABC radio news on the hour. The spiel was something like "even though a fetus will react and try to pull away, the scientists said it did not have the capacity for pain until 30 weeks." Amazing (and sad) that it could be said with a straight face....

[Nateman]

Seems like it should not be too hard to tell. Poke one and see if it reacts.

[Robert A Cook PE]

First: Decide what conclusions you (the liberal researcher) wants.

Then, arrange to "review" the studies that give you the results you want.

[news blogger]

This is news??

[OpusatFR]

An amoeba will attempt to avoid stimulation from electrical charges.

I can't imagine what hell these people are laying up for themselves by denying the humanity of these babies.

[Stellar Dendrite]

Are these the same ppl that told us that starving to death is "euphoric"?

[TBarnett34]

A quadrapleagic wouldn't feel pain if you cut off a finger, either.

That doesn't make it okay.

[avg_freeper]

A twelve gage double barrel shotgun blast applied point blank to someone's head results in no pain.

The lack of pain has no bearing on whether murder is immoral.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Seems like it should not be too hard to tell. Poke one and see if it reacts.

Yes, but what if it is moving only because it has hiccups?

[Always Right]

Does this mean it is OK to kill someone on painkillers. Life is meaningless unless you can feel pain?

[lunarbicep]

but trees do?

[sirchtruth]

Report: Fetuses Don't Feel Pain...Therefore we can murder them without any guilt!