'I am confident the unborn can feel pain': Researchers join the rally to retract harmful study claiming unborn babes don't feel pain

'The paper is ethically unsound and scientifically inaccurate.'

In light of the South Carolina abortion ban at 20-weeks gestation, many have clung to an inaccurate and dangerously ignorant study claiming unborn babies do not feel physical pain at 20-weeks-old.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - A 2005 study claiming "fetal perception of pain is unlikely before the third trimester" has provided the fuel pro-choice murderers require to continue the barbaric practice of killing a budding life - all for the sake of convenience.

The 11-year-old study was co-authored by two extremely biased doctors - Susan J. Lee, who worked as a lawyer for the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, and Eleanor Drey, the medical director of the Women's Options Center at San Francisco General Hospital.

In the study's conclusion, the authors wrote, "Little or no evidence addresses the effectiveness of direct fetal anesthetic or analgesic techniques," which has since been found to be false by a panel of peer reviews and other scientific studies.

In fact, at only 7-weeks-old, the New England Journal of Medicine found "sensory receptors appear in the perioral [mouth] area."

According to Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy, a child who reaches 14 to 22-weeks' gestation experiences "a physiological fetal reaction to painful stimuli."

The New England Journal of Medicine added at 18-weeks, pain sensory receptors cover "all cutaneous [skin] and mucous surfaces."

Too many women have been tricked into believing abortion is a "safe" option to prevent an "unwanted" child. Those who worried their child might feel pain as it is literally scraped apart and out of the womb, most abortionists claim the child cannot feel pain - as if the lack of pain makes it okay to kill someone.

If an adult in a medically-induced coma doesn't feel pain as they recover from horrific burns then, according to the logic of medical murderers, it is ethically fine to pull the plug - without offering the burn victim a chance to recover.

Does that sound right to you?

It didn't sound right to pro-life activists and researchers either.

In a statement emailed to The Register, Just Facts President James Aresti wrote The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) should be required "to issue a retraction" of its study claiming unborn babies do not feel pain at 20-weeks' gestation.

After receiving Agresti's letter, a spokesman for JAMA simply responded, "The editor in chief has received the request for retraction, and it is being evaluated." Whether anything comes of it has yet to be seen.

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