NOTE: The administrator of A CROOKED PATH made a slight editing change to the heading of the following article. Let’s begin calling things as they really are, shall we? Finally? Not bending out of convenience, laziness, or conformity to the words and misleading language of the world. That is, unless you’re totally comfortable and fine with how things are and imagine not appearing separate from the world is the answer. Conforming to the world is the way to go.

Of course a LIVING HUMAN CHILD ripped, torn asunder from the womb is going to experience EXCRUCIATING PAIN!

A far greater pain than any of us living, in front of a glowing screen reading this have ever had to endure. And I live with chronic pain every minute of every day — but it cannot compare to the pain these babies experience. Welcome to the world! Let us now murder you!

Their pain is, was their entrance to this world, which lead to their murder, and their death.

Thankfully, they all will be, are immediately taken to the comfort of heaven when evil clamps onto them and takes the life God gave them from them.

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It should matter that babies feel excruciating pain during their premeditated murder

One simple question that could get abortion supporters to change their minds — When do babies in the womb feel excruciating pain during an abortion?

August 14, 2023

by Jonathon Van Maren

Reprinted from LifeSite News

(LifeSiteNews) — Medical professionals have known for years that children in the womb can feel pain much earlier than was once believed – and certainly earlier than 24 weeks. (I interviewed the researcher who produced one of the best studies on this here, if you’re interested.) A key reason that fetal pain bans put forward on the state level across the U.S. were so effective is that they forced a question that abortion activists desperately want to avoid: When do babies in the womb feel excruciating pain during an abortion?

The discussion was a lose-lose discussion for abortion activists in the court of public opinion. If they insisted that children in the womb don’t feel pain until 24 weeks’ gestation or later, they could be reasonably asked why they still support abortion at that stage. If they accepted the science but maintained their support for abortion, they appeared ghoulish. Either way, abortion activists were forced into a position where they were defending barbaric procedures that physically destroyed a developing human being and suffered tremendously during their extermination.

Some abortion activists, however, are just fine with that. Consider this revealing exchange between Dr. Calum Miller, one of the U.K.’s most articulate pro-life advocates and an Oxford-educated doctor and ethicists, and an abortion activist. Miller asked her if the fact that a baby in womb can feel pain mattered. “What do you think if it feels excruciating pain as like, a newborn baby?” he asked. “Or that doesn’t matter?”

The abortion activist was admirably (albeit chillingly) honest. “No. I don’t think pain matters, no. Uh, I sound like a sociopath now. [Chuckles.] But pain is of very little consequence to me. When you’re dead, you won’t feel it.”

Miller responded, “They used to think newborn babies don’t feel pain so they used to do surgery because they said these newborn babies can’t feel pain, they’re not sufficiently conscious, they’re not sufficiently self-aware, so they would just do surgery on newborn babies without any painkillers, without any anesthesia. They changed that a few decades ago because there was a pretty unanimous consensus within medical science that newborn babies can feel pain even if they can’t pass the mirror test.”

“Yes, well, regardless of when they feel pain, if they are not of any kind of valuable consciousness to me, which I don’t think they get until much older, it doesn’t matter because it’s just trying to put an emotional response on a blob,” the abortion activists responded with a smile. “It is not an entity that is developed enough for anything to be of any importance. The pain receptors are just irrelevant to me.”

The reason this exchange is significant is because this abortion activist is effectively summarizing the views of the abortion movement. “Pain is of very little consequence to me. When you’re dead, you won’t feel it.” “It’s not developed enough for anything to be of any importance.” In other words, this helpless human being inside me – a little son or daughter – is utterly worthless and can be tortured to death because his or her capacity to feel pain means nothing to me. That view does, as she accurately observes, make her sound like a sociopath. That’s because her view is a sociopathic one told hold – and her view is not mainstream in the public square, although it is mainstream in the abortion movement.

Pro-life activists should do, consistently, what Dr. Calum Miller does here: force them to articulate their position out loud. Every abortion advocate in politics, the press, or the progressive movement should be made to answer this question, from Justin Trudeau to the editorial board of the New York Times: if we know that a baby in the womb feels excruciating pain, is it not an act of unmitigated cruelty to destroy that child’s body? If not, why not?