Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Give the Wee Creature the Benefit of the Doubt

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.

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