Mon Aug 14, 2023 – 5:30 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Medical professionals have known for years that children in the womb can feel pain much earlier than was once believed — and certainly earlier than 24 weeks. (I interviewed the researcher who produced one of the best studies on this here, if you’re interested.) A key reason that fetal pain bans put forward on the state level across the U.S. were so effective is that they forced a question that abortion activists desperately want to avoid: When do babies in the womb feel excruciating pain during an abortion?
The discussion was a lose-lose discussion for abortion activists in the court of public opinion. If they insisted that children in the womb don’t feel pain until 24 weeks’ gestation or later, they could be reasonably asked why they still support abortion at that stage. If they accepted the science but maintained their support for abortion, they appeared ghoulish. Either way, abortion activists were forced into a position where they were defending barbaric procedures that physically destroyed a developing human being and suffered tremendously during their extermination.
Some abortion activists, however, are just fine with that. Consider this
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