PREMATURE BABIES EXPERIENCE PAIN

Premature babies experience pain, according to a study published In the Journal of Neuroscience. Researchers at University College London analyzed brain scans of babies aged between 25 and 45 weeks from conception that were taken during blood tests. Professor Maria Fitzgerald, who led the research said: "We have shown for the first time that the information about pain reaches the brain in premature babies. Beforehand, although we could assume it, we did not know for sure that these babies could feel pain."

Dr John Fleming, bioethical consultant to the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children commented: "If premature babies can feel pain, then so can unborn children, at least those of the same gestational age. It is extraordinary that anyone, let alone scientists, ever assumes that any human being cannot feel pain. The onus is on those who inflict injury, either in the name of therapy or in the case of abortion, to prove that in doing so they inflict no pain. Those who promote a right to abortion must confront the reality of what abortion does to unborn children."

Source: European Life Network (patrick@europeanlifenetwork.org)