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New study denying fetal pain lacks scientific basis pro-life groups say

By Alliance Alert

LifeNews: "Mary Spaulding Balch, a National Right to Life attorney who has overseen the development of legislation in the Unite States informing women of the pain unborn children experience in an abortion, told LifeNews.com that most scientific research says the pain exists. 'An objective expert in neurobiology would be appalled by the stunning lack of scholarship in the RCOG article,' she said. ... Balch says the RCOG authors ignore the seminal 2007 publication of 'Consciousness without a cerebral cortex,' in the medical journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences and dismiss its evidence that children born missing virtually all of the cerebral cortex nonetheless experience pain."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 28, 2010 (boomark / email).