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Also consider the words of this expert. On April 6, 2004, U.S. District Court (District of Nebraska) Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand gave the following testimony before Judge Richard G. Kopf in the case of Leroy Carhart MD., et. Al. vs. Ashcroft

Q. So, Doctor, do you have an opinion as to whether the partial birth abortion procedure causes pain to the fetus?

A. If the fetus is beyond 20 weeks of gestation, I would assume that there will be pain caused to the fetus. And I believe it will be severe and excruciating pain caused to the fetus.

Q. What do you mean by severe and excruciating pain?

A. You see, the threshold for pain is very low. The fetus is very likely extremely sensitive to pain during the gestation of 20 to 30 weeks. And so the procedure associated with partial birth abortion that I just described would be likely to cause severe pain, right from the time the fetus is being manipulated and being handled to the time the incision is made and the brain or the contents, intracranial contents, are sucked out.

Quoted in Father Frank A. Pavone “Ending Abortion: Not Just Fighting It” (New Jersey: Catholic Book Publishing Corp) 2006 pgs 84-85

“Over the last 18 years, real-time ultrasonography, fetoscopy, study of the fetal EKG… and fetal EEG (electroeneephalogram ) have demonstrated remarkable responsiveness of the human fetus to pain, touch, and sound… Observations of the fetal electrocardiogram and the increase of fetal movements in saline abortions indicate that the fetus experiences discomfort as it dies. Indeed, one doctor who, the New York Times wrote “conscientiously performs” saline abortion stated, “when you eject the saline, you often see an increase in fetal movements, it’s horrible.”…”

This was from a letter that was written by a group of professors including two past presidents of the American College of obstetrics and gynecology, backing the fact that fetuses feel pain.

James K.Hoffmeier , editor, “Abortion: a Christian Understanding in Response” Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker, 1987. P 167 to 168

“You can tell by the contours on their faces that that aborted fetuses feel pain, said obstetrician Matthew Bulfin, M.D…he described a case of a 25 year-old woman administered a prostaglandin abortion, who expelled her fetus in the middle of the night. Before hospital nurses arrived, she witnessed “thrashing around and gruesome trauma on his face, and knew that the fetus had suffered.”

Story related by Dr. Matthew Bulfin

M.D. Group Claims that Fetuses Suffer Pain” American Medical News, February 24, 1984. Quoted in “Abortion: A Briefing for Canadian Legislators” National Public Affairs Office, Campaign Life Coalition, Suite 100 1355 Wellington St. Ottawa, ON K1Y, 3C2

“There’s no question the fetus feels pain…when we would put the needle into the uterus to withdraw the amniotic fluid and insert the corrosive saline, invariably the unborn child would be seen to move. It was not always in response to being directly struck by the needle. It seemed to have some inchoate sense of invasion of its territory, an unwelcome intrusion to its environment.”

Former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson

Nathanson, Bernard, M.D. Borowski v. The Attorney General of Canada, Transcript of Evidence and Proceedings at Trial, Page 339. Regina, Saskatchewan, May 1983. Also quoted in “Abortion: A Briefing for Canadian Legislators”

An abortion doctor who performed saline abortions said the following.

“All of a sudden one notices that at the time of the saline infusion there is a lot of activity in the uterus. That’s not fluid currents. That’s obviously the fetus being distressed by swallowing the concentrated salt solution and kicking violently — [that’s part of] the death drama.”

Richard Exley: Abortion: Pro-Life by Conviction, Pro-Choice by Default (Tulsa, Oklahoma: Honor Books, 1989) 56

Saline abortions are not done anymore, but they have been replaced by D & E abortions, where the baby is torn apart using forceps and taken out piece by piece. This process would still be painful for the baby.

Doctors point out that an unborn baby reacts to pain in an article from the British Medical Journal:

“The fetus needs to be heavily sedated by sedating the mother before intrauterine manipulations such as transfusions…The changes in heart rate and increase in movement suggest that these stimuli are painful for the fetus.”

H.B. Valman, MD and J.F. Perarson M.D. “What the Fetus Feels” British Medical Journal, Jan 26, 1980 p 233

From a famous a Professor of Fetology:

“When doctors first began invading the sanctity of the womb, they did not know that the unborn child would react to pain in the same fashion a child would. But they soon learned that he would.”

Dr. A. Liley

Quoted by Magda Denes in The Zero People: Essays on Life. Jeff Hensley, ed (Servant Publications 1983) Also quoted in “We the People” June 1992