An unborn baby at 20 weeks is capable of feeling pain. Have you not seen the videos of abortion, whereby the baby does everything to get away from the item that abortionists use to crush the babies skull?
In fact, babies at 20 weeks feel pain more intensely than adults. This is a “uniquely vulnerable time, since the pain system is fully established, yet the higher level pain-modifying system has barely begun to develop,” according to Dr. Ranalli.
Fetal development is already quite advanced at 20 weeks gestation:
- The skeleton is complete and reflexes are present at 42 days.
- Electrical brain wave patterns can be recorded at 43 days. This is usually ample evidence that “thinking” is taking place in the brain.
- The fetus has the appearance of a miniature baby, with complete fingers, toes and ears at 49 days.
- All organs are functioning—stomach, liver, kidney, brain—and all systems are intact at 56 days.
- By 20 weeks, the unborn child has hair and working vocal cords, sucks her thumb, grasps with her hands and kicks. She measures 12 inches.
Three main methods are used to kill the unborn baby. They are as follows:
- Partial-birth abortion (D&X): The unborn baby is delivered feet first, except for the head, which is punctured at the base of the skull with a sharp object. The brain is then suctioned out, killing the child. (This method was outlawed in the United States in 2007.)
- Dilation and Evacuation (D&E): Sharp-edged instruments are used to grasp, twist and tear the baby’s body into pieces, which are then removed from the womb.
- Saline abortion: Salt water is injected into the womb through the mother’s abdomen. The unborn baby swallows this fluid, is poisoned and dies in a process that sometimes takes 24 hours. The toxic saline solution causes severe burns over the unborn child’s entire body.
And you want to tell me this is not immoral and the baby doesn't suffer. And in regards to your ability to suffer, what about those who can't feel pain? Are they less of a human being and therefore should be killed?
