With a one-minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

Abortion advocates often dismiss the question of fetal pain, but a recent article published

in the Journal of Medical Ethics brought together pro-abortion and pro-life experts to clarify

what we know about what the pre-born feel.

Quote, we consider the possibility that the mere experience of pain without the capacity

for self-reflection is morally significant.

We believe that fetal pain does not have to be equivalent to a mature adult human experience

to matter morally.

What, according to research, as early as seven and a half weeks pre-born babies will move

to avoid unpleasant sensations, though amid stress hormones, their experience in increase

in heart rate and cerebral blood flow.

Bioethicist Dr. Bridget Thrill concluded, quote,

"...denial of fetal pain capacity beginning in the first trimester, but potentially as early

as eight to twelve weeks gestation is no longer tenable."

Babies also have been observed attempting to escape procedures that are designed to kill them.

We should have known better the whole time, but we can't say we don't know anymore.

For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street.