When Ronald Reagan was president, he made a statement that pre-born babies being aborted suffered agonizing pain. Immediately, pro-choice groups attacked his words, claiming that it wasn’t true.
But twenty-six medical authorities, including two past presidents of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists wrote a letter:
“Mr. President, in drawing attention to the capability of the human fetus to feel pain, you stand on firmly established ground…. That the unborn, the prematurely born, and the new-born of the human species is a highly complex, sentient, functioning, individual organism is established scientific fact…. Over the last eighteen years, real time ultrasonography, fetoscopy, study of the fetal EKG [electrocardiogram] and the fetal EEG [electroencephalogram] have demonstrated the remarkable responsiveness of the human fetus to pain, touch, and sound.”
Letter to President Reagan, cited by John Willke in Abortion Questions and Answers (Cincinnati, Ohio: Hayes Publishing Co, 1988), 169.
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