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Expert testifies that fetuses can feel pain by 20 weeksDr. K.S. Anand, the world's foremost authority on research into pain perception in fetal and neonatal children-whose landmark article reviewing the evidence, Pain and its effects in the human neonate and fetus, was published in the New England Journal of Medicine Nov. 19, 1987-testified at the Partial Birth Abortion hearings in the Southern District of New York in 2004 that the fetus feels pain by 20 weeks, possibly as early as 16 weeks.He said the pain endured by the child during a partial birth abortion would be "prolonged" and "intense." Other types of late abortion procedures would no doubt also cause a significant amount of pain for the preborn child: the pain of suffocation (hysterotomy and extraction), scalding (saline induction) or dismemberment (surgical dilation and curettage). We do not know how often each of these procedures is performed in Canada because abortion providers are not required to report this information. Statistics Canada reports that in 2004, at least 401 preborn children were aborted in Canada after 20 weeks gestation. We know the gestational age of only 36,874 children aborted in 2004 because, again, abortion providers are not required to report this information; the age of the remaining 63,165 children aborted that year is listed as unknown. And so how many of these children would also have felt "prolonged" and "intense" pain remains unknown. In Britain, it has been suggested that the child receive some kind of anesthesia before being killed. Dr. Will Johnston |
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