Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!
Posted on 09/26/2005 11:09:17 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
San Francisco, CA (LifeNews.com) -- The fallout from a study published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association by two abortion advocates claiming unborn children don't feel pain from abortions until late in pregnancy continues.
Now, JAMA's editor says she was "unaware" that the authors of the report include an abortion practitioner and a former staffer for a leading abortion advocacy group.
The lead author of the study is Susan J. Lee, a University of California at San Francisco medical student who once worked for NARAL, an abortion advocacy group that recently came under fire for falsely accusing Supreme Court nominee John Roberts of backing abortion-related violence.
Meanwhile, another author, UCSF obstetrician-gynecologist Eleanor Drey, is the medical director of the abortion center at San Francisco General Hospital.
JAMA editor-in-chief Catherine DeAngelis told Knight Ridder News she was unaware that the two authors are intimately involved in the abortion movement. She acknowledged that revelation could hurt the credibility of the publication.
"This is the first I've heard about it," she told the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper. "We ask them to reveal any conflict of interest. I would have published" the disclosure of the abortion ties if it had been made.
Drey, the abortion practitioner, defends her participation in the study.
"We thought it was critical to include an expert in abortion among the authors," she told Knight Ridder. "I think my presence ... should not serve to politicize a scholarly report."
Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand of the University of Arkansas Medical Center says the report is biased. He said he and other specialists in development of unborn children have shown that babies feel pain before birth as early as 20 weeks into the pregnancy.
Anand said other medical studies conclude that unborn babies are "very likely" to be "extremely sensitive to pain during the gestation of 20 to 30 weeks."
"This is based on multiple lines of evidence," Dr. Anand said. "Not just the lack of descending inhibitory fibers, but also the number of receptors in the skin, the level of expression of various chemicals, neurotransmitters, receptors, and things like that."
Anand explained that later-term abortion procedures, such as a partial-birth abortion "would be likely to cause severe pain."
Anand says the report will upset other specialists who know more about fetal development than the reports' authors.
An April 2004 Zogby poll shows that 77% of Americans back "laws requiring that women who are 20 weeks or more along in their pregnancy be given information about fetal pain before having an abortion."
Only 16 percent disagreed with such a proposal, according to the poll, commissioned by the National Right to Life Committee.
Yeah, and Lard Ass Kennedy is a Republican!
I see, you can't have them know pain will be involved in the murder. Now if you're talking about surgery for yourself, a post-birth child, spouse or parent they *will* tell you about pain management.
The abortion industry is build on "seeing no evil." Keep them ignorant or we can't pry their blood money from them.
"We thought it was critical to include an expert in abortion among the authors," she told Knight Ridder. "I think my presence ... should not serve to politicize a scholarly report."
On the contrary, Dr. Drey, you unrepentant abortion advocate; your presence should not serve to scholarize a political report.
The barbarians creep into the city through many secret passageways.
I presume they show an in-the-womb camera covering the fetus' reaction when the object is inserted? How else would they know? All the ones I've seen show just the opposite, that the fetus reacts to any stimuli, and seems panicked until its little life is snuffed out! Where did they get their statistics, anyway?
I guess they feel that if they personally have no guilty conscience and feel no pain from it, the fetus cannot either, even though we know that the nervous system is the first thing developed.
jerks!
Thanks for the ping!
She is an utter incompetent who violated every rule of editorial oversight by publishing an unreviewed NARAL propaganda fiction.
When they got an article that basically says a preemie on one side of the birth canal feels zilch while doctors know that on the other side just the opposite is true, why didn't they puzzle over it? This would be like a report claiming that aspirin gives most people headaches.
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