A report published by LifeNews in 2015 confirms an uncomfortable truth for the culture of death: children conceived, from early stages of gestation, are capable of experiencing real and atrocious pain when they are victims of an abortion.
Dr. David Prentice, quoted in the information, states that “babies in the womb at 20 weeks, and probably earlier, feel pain, and it may be more intense than in a newborn or adult.” In other words, while society debates statistics and ideological slogans, abortion is carried out on defenseless creatures who suffer unimaginable torment.
Medical evidence confirms it: in fetal surgery interventions, specialists administer anesthesia directly to the child in the mother’s womb. Why do it if there were no possibility of pain? The answer is obvious and dismantles the narrative that seeks to reduce the fetus to “a clump of cells.”
Science against ideology
For years, the abortion lobby has maintained that fetal pain is not possible before very advanced stages of pregnancy. However, recent studies indicate that pain perception can occur much earlier than pro-abortion propaganda dictated. Nervous structures such as the thalamus and primitive connections of the nervous system are sufficient to transmit the sensation of pain, even before the complete development of the cerebral cortex.
In other words, every abortion not only extinguishes an innocent human life: it also involves inflicting suffering on someone who has no defense or voice.
A moral and political urgency
The data provided by science becomes a wake-up call for consciences: abortion is not only a moral injustice and a crime against the right to life, but it also adds the aggravating factor of causing pain and torture to the most defenseless.
Legislation that allows these practices is thus even more exposed. We are not dealing with an “aseptic” or “clinical” procedure, but with an extreme form of violence against the innocent.
Remembering the essential
Amid the ideological debate, it is worth remembering the essential: the conceived child is a human being, and science does nothing more than reinforce what natural reason and faith have always upheld. The defense of life is not an ideological option, but a moral imperative.