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One of the bafflingest questions that medical science faces, is who is in pain and who is faking it. If they can solve this question for the neonate, then they can solve it for the 55 year old who says his back is in agony but the doctor is afraid of losing his license for prescribing too much Vicodin. A twofer.
oops, neonate should be preborn
Does this mean an abortionist should give the fetus morphine before sucking its brain out?
Any person be he called Doctor or Monster who intentionally kills a full term baby is guilty of murder IMO.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this study specifically on viable subjects? It's not going to dissuade the pre-third trimester abortion crowd, but it does shine a bad light on the partial-birth-abortion and infant-genital-mutilation crowds.
The most amazing thing to me is that they had to spend money to study this at ALL! Human beings feel pain, premature babies are human beings, therefore, they feel pain. DUUH!
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Thanks for posting this, Ivan!
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Until recently, most neonatalogists believed that babies in the womb were mostly immune to feeling pain. With the advent of sonograms and live-action ultrasound images, doctors and nurses began to see unborn babies at 20 weeks gestation react physically to outside stimuli such as sound, light and touch.
The sense of touch is so acute that even a single human hair drawn across an unborn child's palm causes the baby to make a fist.
More recently, surgeons entering the womb to perform corrective procedures on tiny unborn children have found that those babies will flinch, jerk and recoil from sharp objects and incisions. "In instances when a fetal bladder is obstructed and we need to go in and puncture it to drain the bladder, the unborn baby will pull away," explains Dr. Steven Calvin, a practicing perinatologist and chair of the Program in Human Rights in Medicine at the University of Minnesota, where he also teaches obstetrics. "The neural pathways are present for pain to be experienced quite early by unborn babies."
The pain is agonizing
Since medical researchers now widely agree that unborn babies at 20 to 24 weeks gestation experience pain during prenatal surgery, they most certainly feel pain during abortion.
The obvious and horrifying conclusion is that millions of aborted unborn children have silently suffered greatly in their final minutes of life.
The most common methods used to abort unborn babies at 20 weeks gestation or more involve sharp-edged instruments to cut, tear and twist the baby's body into pieces, which are extracted from the womb. In a partial-birth abortion, the unborn baby is delivered feet first, except for the head, which is punctured at the base of the skull with a sharp object. The brains are then suctioned out, killing the child.
Abortion lies revealed
For decades, abortionists and abortion advocates have tried to convince people that physical suffering for unborn children during abortion is a myth.
Abortion became legal in the United States before sonograms became prevalent or photos of human life in the womb were readily accessible. Abortion became legal before researchers had taken time to study the issue of fetal pain. However, mounting new scientific evidence is removing any doubt that unborn children do, indeed, feel intense pain. Once again, the abortion industry's lies to the public have been uncovered.
Unborn babies have heightened sensitivities
According to Dr. Paul Ranalli, neurologist at the University of Toronto, unborn babies between 20 and 30 weeks development may actually feel pain more intensely than adults. He says this is a "uniquely vulnerable time, since the pain system is fully established; yet the higher-level pain-modifying system has barely begun to develop."
Given the medical evidence that unborn babies experience pain, compassionate people are viewing abortion more and more as an inhumane and intolerable brutality against defenseless human beings. http://www.mccl.org/fp_news/fetal_pain.htm
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Judges are ruling that it's unconstitutional to execute prisoners sentenced to death if it's too painful.
They better get busy and rule the same here!
Trust me...25 week old babies feel pain.