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."

[cwb]

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

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This is exactly why the pro-death crowd is becoming laughable. In their attempts to justify and defend their position, they continue to marginalize themselves with half-assed claims. The irony is that while many may have supported the pro-choice position in the past, this extremism in defense of their position is turning many against them.

[Michael Goldsberry]

The Abortion Gallery *

* Warning, gruesome!

[Stellar Dendrite]

i just heard this reported on the radio......goebbels would be proud

[GianniV]

Wonder if Hillary would be okay if we put pictures like that on a billboard?

[Theophilus]

Let me rephrase this:

Imagine the unmitigated agony of being burned and/or suddenly ripped apart while in that condition

[conservonator]

OK, now I'm really lost: is the ability to discern pain now the test of weather a person is a person or as on Freeper put it "a meat sack"? Do they have to feel pain every where or only in a certain percentage of the body? What about the other senses? If I can't see, am I fully human?

Life begins at conception; all other points of demarcation are arbitrary.

The only thing this "report" really illustrates is that at some level, the pro abortion crowed was concerned with the pain issue.

[grimalkin]

Oh, for crying out loud. Even if true, it's not the point.

[reagan_fanatic]

In the not-too-distant future, Americans will look back and shake their heads at this dark period in our history and wonder how a Mother could bring herself to kill her own child.

[JustAnotherOkie]

If a fish can feel pain it is fair to assume a fetus can.

Did they conduct fetus interviews to learn this?

Let's ask Stewie from 'Family Guy', he'll know.

[Zechariah_8_13]

In the not-too-distant future, Americans will look back and shake their heads at this dark period in our history and wonder how a Mother could bring herself to kill her own child.

I think the fact that the head of Code Pink renamed herself Medea is pretty self-explanatory.

Satan, meet your willing servants.

[meema]

Dear Lord, forgive them...

Makes me want to scream!

[Zechariah_8_13]

The only thing this "report" really illustrates is that at some level, the pro abortion crowed was concerned with the pain issue.

I disagree. I think they were just looking for more justification for their butchery. If they were really concerned about pain, they would have erred on the side of caution.

Evil.

[Mr. Lucky]

By definition, wouldn't an abortion ALWAYS occur during the "final" months of a pregnancy?

[kittymyrib]

Next these absolvers of murder will be telling us that these babies are euphoric as they are being dismembered or cooked in saline solution. One only can wonder what the eternal fate of these monsters will be. I think it will be suitably fitting.

[Quinotto]

And they know this because................... the tooth fairy told them so?

[Libertina]

They used to say babies couldn't smile either...it was just GAS!

[editor-surveyor]

2000 pounds of Barbara Streisand!

[ModelBreaker]

One researcher scoffs at the idea that he has a political agenda.

Maybe he doesn't. But he'll never get tenure or any more government grant money if he finds that babys in the womb feel pain.

[eureka!]

good point

[virgil]

Yeah. Guilty consciences abound. Rationalization is the pain killer.