(AgapePress) - A doctor and pain specialist is debunking an article being used by pro-abortion members of Congress to oppose legislation that would that a mother considering an abortion be informed of the pain the procedure would cause her child.
Last week, a discredited 2005 article published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, was cited by House Democrats who voted against the passage of the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act. The JAMA article claimed that, since an unborn baby's brain is not fully developed until 29 weeks, the child will not feel pain during an abortion.
But Dr. Sanjay Gupta, director of the Atlantic Pain and Wellness Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, says evidence from neonatal studies shows brain circuits start developing before 29 weeks of age. "It is possible that they are not complete before 29 weeks of age," he explains, "but an incomplete circuit may cause more pain than a complete circuit."
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Gupta points out that the JAMA article in question was not based on research but was simply an opinion from pro-abortion activists, including one involved with an abortion clinic. His own opinion about the pain early-stage fetuses experience during abortion diverges sharply from that in the JAMA piece.
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