There are two quotes I found disturbing with regard to the latest findings regarding a 29-week old fetus and it's supposed inability to feel pain.
Keep in mind that Dr. Drey is one of the co-authors of this study and by the way, she is the Medical Director of the Women's Options Center of San Francisco General Hospital. Surely there's no conflict of interest there.
Dr. Eleanor Drey, one of Rosen's co-authors, said that as an obstetrician who sometimes performs abortions, she would find it troubling to be compelled to bring up the subject of fetal pain with her patients."I would be forced to drag them through potentially a lot of misinformation," she said. "Our systematic review has shown it's extremely unlikely that pain exists at a point when abortions are done. I'm going to have to talk about something I know will cause the patient distress, something that by our best assessment of the scientific data is not relevant."
Misinformation? Perhaps she's afraid of telling her patients the truth instead.
Sarah Stoesz the CEO of Planned Parenthood Minnesota had this to say.
"When women are already facing a very difficult decision about terminating a pregnancy that they and their families deeply want, to force them to consider that on the top of everything else they might be inflicting pain seems to me cruel and unforgiveable.
I can only let these statements speak for themselves. God help us.
