Abortion advocates are always quick to claim that their demands are based on science.  They make this claim in attempting to justify availability of the Plan B morning-after pill over-the-counter.  No studies have been done to evaluate the effects of Plan B on teenage girls, nor were any studies done to assess effects of continued use of Plan B.  What is scientific about that?   Ignoring this lack of information, proponents maintain Plan B is so safe that the FDA is virtually obligated to approve over-the-counter sales.

 

Now a study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association claims that unborn children will not feel pain during an abortion until the 28th week of pregnancy.  Abortion advocates immediately claimed that science has shown the folly of passing laws to require the option of anesthesia for abortions at 20 weeks or later.  What science?   The study was done by abortion advocates.   It was not new research, but a review and drawing their own conclusions from existing research. 

 

Considering that premature babies born at 23-24 weeks are surviving and are known to feel pain, how scientific is it to claim that if such a baby was still in utero, it would not feel pain until the 28th week?  Neurologist Dr. Paul Ranalli says the 20-30 week child in the womb may even feel more pain than an adult.  He adds that the "pain impulse connections in the spinal cord link up and reach the thalamus (the brain’s reception center) at 7-20 weeks."

 

Beware when abortion advocates claim that the Pro-Life position on an issue is purely political while their position is based on science.  Often the reverse is more likely the truth.