{"id":258211,"date":"2021-12-02T10:44:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T16:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=258211"},"modified":"2021-12-03T16:33:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T22:33:51","slug":"supreme-court-justices-mislead-fetal-pain-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/supreme-court-justices-mislead-fetal-pain-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court justices mislead on fetal pain and human development in abortion case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During discussion at the Supreme Court on December 1 regarding the constitutionality of a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, considered two of the Court’s liberal justices, espoused inaccurate information about preborn children.<\/p>\n

Justice Sotomayor compared the modern scientific understanding of when preborn babies feel pain to “fringe” science.<\/p>\n

Sotomayor asked Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart to clarify why he believed that “advancements in medicine” make the overturning of Roe vs. Wade<\/em>\u00a0not only reasonable but imperative. Stewart answered<\/a>, “I think it is an advancement in knowledge and concern about such things as fetal pain, what we know the child is doing and looks like and is fully human very early.”<\/p>\n

Sotomayor cut him off, responding, “the minority of people, the gross minority of doctors who believe fetal pain exists before 24 or 25 weeks is a huge minority, and one not well-founded in science at all.” She continued, “So I don’t see how that really adds anything to the discussion, that a small fringe of doctors believe that pain could be experienced before a cortex is formed, doesn’t mean there has been that much of a difference since Casey.”<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0The irrefutable case for the rights of preborn human beings<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But as Live Action News has reported many<\/a>\u00a0times<\/a>\u00a0in the past several years, belief in the likelihood that preborn children can feel pain<\/a> before “24 or 25 weeks” gestation is not<\/em> fringe science or merely premature scientific speculation; it is based on\u00a0solid evidence<\/a>\u00a0using recent research. Even Senator Lindsey Graham responded<\/a> on Twitter, as noted by the Daily Wire<\/a>, pointing out that preborn children younger than 24 weeks are routinely given anesthesia during medical procedures because physicians know they can feel pain.<\/p>\n

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It is well-established medical practice to provide anesthesia to the unborn child regarding medical procedures performed before 24 weeks because the nerve endings, which generate pain, are well-developed.<\/p>\n

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) December 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n