Does a Fetus Feel Pain?  Two Doctors Weigh In

"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."(1)

Story related by Dr. Matthew Bulfin

"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."(2)

Former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson

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Footnotes

1. "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

2. 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"