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Medical Expert Confirms Unborn Children Feel Excruciating Pain During AbortionsNational Charlotte Lozier Institue May 18, 2015 | 5:38PM Washington, DCOn May 12, 2015, David A. Prentice, Ph.D., Vice President and Research Director of the Charlotte Lozier Institute, was invited to speak on the science of fetal pain on Point of View radio talk show. On May 13, 2015 the United States House of Representatives passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.The full transcript is below:Ms. Penna Dexter:We want to talk about fetal pain […] because this bill is so much stronger. It actually bans abortions after twenty weeks, and that’s because – I don’t think there’s a doubt now that a fetus can feel pain at 20 weeks?Dr. David Prentice:The science is pretty conclusive at this point. And there are always going to be people, especially those in favor of abortion, who will say, “Oh that really doesn’t happen, and they’ll throw up a smokescreen. And what they usually do is they refer to an old study back in 2005 that was published actually by people who had associations with Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.Read more at: https://www.lifenews.com/2015/05/18/medical-expert-confirms-unborn-children-feel-excruciating-pain-during-abortions/
Understandable. I think only a little over 1% of abortions happen past 20 weeks.
“Late abortions are not “rare.†At least 275 facilities offer abortions past 20 weeks fetal age,â€NCAP Executive Director Ron Fitzsimmons admitted to the New York Times that the partial-birth abortion method was used 3,000-5,000 times annually, and “in the vast majority of cases†on “a healthy mother with a healthy fetus that is 20 weeks or more along†(New York Times, Feb. 26, 1997).https://www.lifenews.com/2015/05/11/300-doctors-and-275-abortion-clinics-do-abortions-after-20-weeks-many-after-24-weeks/