| − | While the unborn child obviously dies from the procedure, there is growing evidence the unborn child suffers severe pain from the procedure before dying. No one denies that the pain is felt by unborn children in more advanced stages of pregnancy, and "researchers ... studying responses during fetal surgery, say they’ve observed flinching or physiological changes like an increase in stress hormones in fetuses even at 18 weeks’ gestation."<ref>http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2010/04/14/is-fetal-pain-the-newest-abortion-battleground/</ref> | + | While the unborn child obviously dies from the procedure, there is growing evidence the unborn child suffers severe pain from the procedure before dying. No one denies that the pain is felt by unborn children in more advanced stages of pregnancy, and "researchers ... studying responses during fetal surgery, say they’ve observed flinching or physiological changes like an increase in stress hormones in fetuses even at 18 weeks’ gestation."<ref>http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2010/04/14/is-fetal-pain-the-newest-abortion-battleground/</ref><ref>Slater, R., Cantarella, A., Gallella, S., Worley, A., Boyd, S., Meek, J., Fitzgerald, M. Cortical Pain Responses in Human Infants, Journal of Neuroscience, April 5 2006, 26(14):3662-3666</ref> |