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I didn’t realize that the medical community had been bewildered as to whether premature newborns could feel pain. Now, hi-tech evidence shows that they do, in fact, experience pain:

Premature babies experience feelings of pain rather than simply displaying reflex reactions, a study says.

Experts have never been sure how a premature baby responds to pain, the Journal of Neuroscience reported.

But a team from University College London found that they do feel pain after analysing brain scans taken when blood samples were being drawn.

The scientists behind this UK study are very committed now, to doing everything they can to alleviate preemie pain during the myriad procedures those little ones undergo to stay alive.

I rather wonder what the unlimited abortion crowd will make of this study. That is, the crowd that believes that a woman has the right to abort an infant up until the moment before the infant is born will now have to grapple with the fact that those infants, both at the end of the second trimester and during the entirety of the third trimester, feel pain. You’re not just erasing an organism that, in its early state is visually indistinguishable from a dog or chicken zygote (or even a dog fetus), you’re snuffing out something that not only looks like a living baby, but acts like one too.

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