Executive Director Wanted >TX; Newspapers Report Debate Over Fetal Pain Growing More Intense in Great Britain.(Virginia Society for Human Life seeks director)

Virginia Society for Human Life is seeking qualified applicants for the position of executive director. Experience in the pro-life movement desired. Responsibilities include overseeing the VSHL Richmond office, fundraising, chapter development, and work with the legislative committee. Please send letter of interest and resume to:

Brenda Fastabend, President

Virginia Society for Human Life

P. O. Box 3292 * Lynchburg, VA 24503>JN NRL News

Although reports of new discoveries only occasionally show up in the popular press, increasingly scientific research is concluding that unborn children are capable of experiencing pain. Making the conclusion even more dramatic is that the point in pregnancy when the child is capable of processing "organic pain" is being revealed to be earlier and earlier.

A recent headline in the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph was the latest sign: "Fetuses may develop consciousness long before the legal age limit for abortions, one of Britain's leading brain scientists has said."

Baroness Greenfield, a professor of neurology at Oxford University and the director of the Royal Institution, argued that the conscious mind could develop before the upper age where terminations are permitted in England - - 24 weeks (except for "exceptional circumstances").