"Advocates of abortion can try to deny that thousands of unborn children who are killed in late abortions feel pain, but they are the ones dabbling in 'junk science'." -- Carol Tobias, President of National Right to Life
Communications Department
202.626.8825
mediarelations@nrlc.org
Press Room News / Pain
Va. Delegate Tran, Va. Gov. Northam, and the reality of fetal pain
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. My family and I will be on our vacation through August 27. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” — the stories our readers have told us they especially liked. It would be difficult...
Another brutally honest account of the pain and dangers of a “medical abortion” by a woman who had one
By Dave Andrusko Earlier today we posted a critique of the latest aren’t-chemical-abortions-wonderful study ground out by the same litany of pro-abortion academics. But, as we’ve reported over the years, chemical abortions can be dangerous to the mother and are...
Tearing off arms and legs and crushing the skulls of pain-capable unborn children is barbarism
By Paul Stark Editor’s note. Paul Stark is Communications Associate for Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life. This letter to the editor appeared in the Duluth News Tribune. The letter, “A 20-week abortion ban has to be opposed,” criticized federal legislation to...
Neurologist: Both preborn and premature babies feel pain
By Sarah Terzo Dr. Paul Ranalli, Professor of Neurology at the University of Toronto, has stated, in reference to the pain felt by premature babies: “The only difference between a child in the womb at this stage or one born and therefore in an incubator, is how they...
Pro-Choicer: sympathy for the pain we think unborn babies feel means nothing
By Sarah Terzo A pro-choice writer shared the following argument against laws protecting babies from late-term abortions: “We may, as many people do, sympathize with the pain we think the fetus feels, but we must be careful in saying that this sympathy establishes the...
The ability to feel pain and Richard Dawkins
By Paul Stark “With respect to those meanings of ‘human’ that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.” — A tweet from Richard Dawkins, echoing philosopher Peter Singer, who has made the same comparison. Dawkins is probably...
The “incredible pain” that followed years after her abortion
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. While this post ran a couple of years back, it is 100% relevant to the battles we fight today. I had not read or heard about the essay that appeared on the Jewish parenting site Kveller titled, “My Jewish Abortion” when it first ran in...
Pro-abortionists lament 2017’s “Scariest abortion restrictions”
By Dave Andrusko As state legislatures reconvene for the 2017 session, pro-abortion sites are running stories under such headlines as “A Wave of Anti-Abortion Laws is About to Hit This State” [Mother Jones magazine, talking about Missouri] and “The Scariest Abortion...
It will soon be official: Ohio will become the 15th state to protect pain-capable unborn children
By Dave Andrusko It’s easy to forget that when pro-life legislation passes, it does not take effect until a date sometime in the future (barring successful pro-abortion legal shenanigans). But as Congress comes back into session today and state legislatures approach...