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Research has shown that unborn babies feel pain. During the debate on Victoria's Abortion Law Reform Act, one of the amendments put forward by pro-life politicians was to insist that unborn babies be given pain relief/anaesthetic before the abortion is carried out. That amendment was defeated.
Recently, some research was published that claimed unborn babies don't feel pain - but that in turn has been criticised...
In the past year, six US states have banned abortion after 20 weeks on the basis that babies feel pain.
Read NY Times report - click here.
In April 2011, the Idaho government passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, making Idaho the third state to protect from abortion the life of the pain-capable child. Last year a similar law was passed in Nebraska, USA - it bans abortion after 20 weeks on the basis that unborn babies feel pain.... Now three more states ahve done the same.
Here's the Breakpoint commentary regarding Nebraska...
Seeing Is Believing - The Humanity of the Fetus
Breakpoint, Mark Earley April 27, 2010.
"A groundbreaking new law restricting abortion in Nebraska is getting a lot of attention from pro-abortion forces. And well it should. I'll explain.
On April 19, Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman signed a new state law banning abortions at and after 20 weeks. This isn't just another abortion restriction-it has the potential to be a major breakthrough in the fight for the sanctity of human life.
The Nebraska law is called the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. As Marc Thiessen writes in the Washington Post, it's based on reputable scientific studies that tell us "that fetuses can feel pain at 20 weeks, and possibly as early as 17 weeks when a portion of the brain called the 'subplate zone' is formed."
And, according to the widely respected Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand, who has been studying infant pain for 25 years, unborn infants may feel pain more keenly than those already born......."
Read the full article: Seeing Is Believing - The Humanity of the Fetus
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