While I was reading the news yesterday, I found an article claiming that unborn babies don’t feel pain till the age of 26 weeks. It didn’t take long for me to realize that this was not about science but about making women who consider abortion feel good about it.
The research claims that even though the pathways in the brain needed to process pain responses and hormonal stress responses are in place by 26 weeks, the child can only really experience pain after birth; because before birth, the child doesn’t understand the “subjectivity of pain”!
According to a BBC article, Dr Stuart Derbyshire, who made these claims, is linked to “pro-choice groups”.
For US based pro-life movement, this is nothing more than propaganda.
“This is a bit more propaganda than science,” said David Christensen, director of congressional affairs for the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C.
Specifically, Christensen faults the author for being selective in the research he chose to include and for presenting a “circular argument.”
“He redefines pain such that not even a newborn could experience pain in the way he defines it, and then concludes that fetuses can’t experience pain and that’s absurd,” Christensen said. Full story…
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On www.scotsman.com
On www.mirror.co.uk
On www.14wfie.com
On www.bbc.co.uk
On www.medpagetoday.com
On www.playfuls.com
On www.999today.com
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