In
the USA, unborn children undergoing surgery are given anesthetics because the Science of Fetology shows that they are
pain-capable.
The RCOG
- Britains’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists –say that babies
do not feel pain until they are born because they are not fully awake and
writhing doesn’t necessarily mean pain. (2010)
But why
do we even require proof of pain
before administering a painkiller? If
there is any doubt at all about pain capability, if for no other reason because
of our kindness and humanity, we should give the wee writhing creature the
benefit of the doubt.
Writhing might mean something.
Recoiling might mean something. A mouth
opening wide might mean something. Rapid limb movement might mean
something. Evasive actions might mean
something.
The
RCOG has been forced to do abortions in public hospitals since 1967. That is
almost 50 years of abortion. For those doctors, perhaps the Truth is too
Terrible to face. As Lord Denning, an
English Judge, said in another context (when 6 innocent men convicted of the Birmingham
bombings were found to have been framed by the police) many years ago:
"This is such an appalling vista that every
sensible person in the land would say that it cannot be right that these
actions (i.e. allowing an appeal to
overturn their convictions) should go
any further."
Perhaps the RCOG feel the same way
as Lord Denning.
I
worked as a midwife in a public hospital in England many years ago. Every
Monday was ‘termination day’. The OB/GYN came into work angry and stayed angry
the entire morning. He hated Mondays for a good reason.
I will post some researched refutations of the RCOG finding.
