"I think Maximus owes us an apology . http : //www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9053416/"
"Well , it is interesting to not that two of the five researchers have ties to the abortion industry . One of them runs an abortion clinic ; another formerly served as an attorney for NARAL . Neither researcher disclosed this information to JAMA . This is an incidence of researcher bias entering into the scientific method . And your belief in this article takes faith . Steve Calvin August 30 , 2005 In the Minneapolis Star-Tribune Last week 's article on fetal pain in the Journal of the American Medical Association proves the desperation of the defenders of unrestricted abortion . The article reviews medical literature and concludes that fetuses are unlikely to feel pain prior to 30 weeks gestation . The authors were clearly motivated to write what I view as a medical fantasy to counter proposed federal legislation that would limit abortion in the second trimester . The legislation would require informing women considering abortion that fetuses beyond 20 weeks feel pain and would require anesthesia for the fetus . Twenty-five years of delivering babies and a specialization in high-risk obstetrics provide me some experience to refute the claim that fetuses feel no pain until 30 weeks . Many of the tiny babies that I deliver , some as small as 1 pound at 23 weeks , have required surgery during their difficult neonatal battle for life . All of them receive anesthesia . Before the 1970s , many newborns , both term and preterm , were operated on without anesthesia in the mistaken belief that they could not feel pain . They certainly could n't tell anyone about their discomfort . With more sophisticated monitoring it became clear that blood pressure and pulse rose dramatically during the trauma of surgery . Subsequently , a subspecialty of pediatric anesthesia developed . Those who deny fetal pain claim that hormonal and withdrawal responses to invasive procedures are mere reflexes and are no evidence of pain . Recently , I performed an amniocentesis on a patient at 21 weeks gestation because of a possible infection . On ultrasound , the fetus pulled away from the needle when it grazed her arm . It is clear to me that this fetus felt discomfort , and that she would feel horrible pain if she were dismembered in the exercise of an unjust constitutional right . The medical literature duel over abortion has been quite one-sided since most of the medical hierarchy is ardently pro-abortion . There are , however , courageous exceptions . The most important medical study on abortion this year got absolutely no media coverage . A French study in the April 2005 British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology convincingly showed that a previous abortion increased the risk of subsequent delivery at 22 to 27 weeks by 70 percent . Premature birth has heavy personal and societal costs , yet the alarm over the increasing rate of prematurity ignores the abortion connection . The fight over requirements for informed consent prior to abortion continues because abortion defenders refuse to accept any restriction on this manufactured constitutional right to exercise prenatal lethal violence . Their blind orthodoxy requires denial of fetal pain and willful ignorance of the significant long-term consequences of abortion . Steve Calvin is a Minneapolis physician ."
"I think Maximus owes us an apology ."
"the mistaken belief that they could not feel pain"