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Pro-Abortion Fetal Pain Study: An Overplayed Hand.

National Right to Life News

| September 01, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 National Right to Life Committee, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

It has generally been assumed ... that neonates [newborns] may not perceive pain or may perceive it only minimally. Assumed by whom? Certainly not by those of us at the bedside of critically ill infants, who see them flinch from procedures, startle in response to loud noises ... . Why then has surgery in neonates been conducted without anaesthesia? Is this barbarism, as some have suggested? Dr. Anne Fletcher (1987), Children's Hospital Medical Center, Washington.

Fetal Pain: a systematic multidisciplinary review of the evidence is a highly controversial, scientifically flawed study published in the August 24/31 issue of the Journal of the American Medical ...

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