[SaveTheChief]

A review of medical evidence has found that fetuses likely don't feel pain until the final months of pregnancy, a powerful challenge to abortion opponents who hope that discussions about fetal pain will make women think twice about ending pregnancies.

How does this justify the murder of an innocent life?

[RightWingAtheist]

Exactly. But the left has based its views on abortion not on any sound science, as it so often likes to claim, but the utilitarian principle that the best government is that which allows for the most pleasure and the least pain. For them, the argument that "fetuses feel no pain" serves as just a nail in their plank.

Of course the fact that some animals, even ones as advanced as fishes, don't appear to feel pain either doesn't stop the same utilitarians from use the pleasure/pain argument when arguing in favor of animal rights. But then again, logical inconsitency is the stock in trade of Peter Singer types.

[Mr. Silverback]

How does this justify the murder of an innocent life?

Exactly. Taking the word "torturous" out of the phrase "torturous murder of a small child" doesn't really change much, does it?