Category: fetal pain

By Right to Life UK A new study has shown that unborn babies undergoing an anaesthetic injection into their thigh ahead of intrauterine surgery exhibit changes in facial expression similar to newborn babies experiencing pain. The study, published at the end of last month by a team of researchers in Brazil, ‘Sorting pain out of …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. This story, which ran a year ago, is the latest in our ongoing series in which we repost important and still-pertinent stories that appeared in National Right to Life News Today. Support for the position that unborn babies can experience pain by the 20th week after fertilization and “something like …

By David Prentice  Editor’s note. This first appeared in the Western Journal and is reposted with the author’s permission. “If you prick us, do we not bleed?” — William Shakespeare, Act III, Scene I, “The Merchant of Venice.” The answer to the question, the plaintive plea of Shylock for the recognition of his shared humanity, is, of course, …

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. When NARAL undertakes its every-couple-of-months attack on Women Helping Centers [as they are doing right now], one of the arrows they shoot targets the wholly defensible conclusion that the unborn can experience pain while being torn apart. They usually side-step the reality …

By Sarah Terzo Curtis Cook, M.D., Maternal-Fetal Medicine Butterworth Hospital, Michigan State College of Human Medicine: “In the course of my practice, we must occasionally perform life-saving procedures on babies while still in the uterus. I have often observed babies of 5 to 6 months gestation withdraw from needles and instruments, much like a pain …

By the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues A new report from the UK All Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group (APPPG) and their secretariat at Right to Life UK points to evidence that unborn babies can feel pain from even earlier in pregnancy than was previously thought. The report features an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics …

In 2006, Professor Stuart Derbyshire denied that pre-born children could feel pain. Now that’s changed. By Stephen Kokx March 12, 2020 — A professor who previously believed that unborn children “cannot experience pain” has just co-authored a study that suggests that the pre-born can in fact feel pain, and that they can feel it far earlier …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. Elsewhere today we talk about President Trump’s State of the Union address last night where he told the Joint Session of Congress that “ I’m also calling upon members of Congress here tonight to pass legislation finally banning the late-term abortion of babies.” There are many, many reasons to stop …

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. Yesterday we wrote about an intriguing post that appeared in the prestigious Journal of Medical Ethics that challenged the “consensus” that the unborn child cannot experience pain until (at least) the 24th week. Making it even more fascinating is that one of …

By Dave Andrusko Support for the position that unborn babies can experience pain by the 20th week after fertilization and “something like pain” much earlier, has come from a very unexpected source. One of the joint authors of “Reconsidering fetal pain” is Stuart Derbyshire, who is firmly ensconced in the “pro-choice” camp. As the Daily …