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Article: Evidence of Fetal Pain Continues to Accumulate.
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- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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A new study has put another nail in the coffin of the argument that there is no credible evidence unborn babies experience pain prior to the 29th week of gestation.
A team led by Prof Maria Fitzgerald, from the department of anatomy and developmental biology at University College London, published an article in the April issue of the Journal of Neuroscience which used sophisticated diagnostic tools to show that premature babies do experience real pain.
Researchers employed near-infrared spectroscopy to measure blood levels and oxygenation in the brain before, during, and after nurses lanced babies' heels to extract blood. As the New York Times wrote, ...