From the New York Times:
Two of five authors of an article published in a medical journal on Wednesday saying that fetuses probably cannot feel pain before the 29th week of pregnancy did not tell the journal that they had abortion-related activities that might be seen as a conflict of interest, the journal’s editor said Wednesday.
The editor, Dr. Catherine D. DeAngelis, of The Journal of the American Medical Association, said in an interview that had she been aware of the activities, the journal most likely would have mentioned them. But she added that the disclosure would not have kept the article from being published, because editors and outside experts who had read the manuscript before publication had found it scientifically sound.
One author, Susan J. Lee, a medical student, is also a lawyer who for eight months from 1999 to 2000 worked in the legal department at Naral, an abortion rights group. Another author, Dr. Eleanor A. Drey, performs abortions and is medical director of an abortion clinic…. (LRR NYT)
A lawyer — from NARAL! Just the qualifications I’d be looking for in a healer.
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couldn’t log in to read the whole article, but I do find it interesting that they think babies can’t feel pain before week 29. I have a friend who was born at 27 weeks, and I can’t imagine that it hurt her any less to have IVs etc than it would any other older babies.