Fri May 27, 2022 – 6:05 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) removed a page from its website that claimed unborn babies do not feel pain prior to viability.
A webpage titled “Facts are Important: Fetal Pain” cited highly-criticized studies that claimed unborn babies do not feel pain until roughly 24 weeks’ gestation. The claim has often been used by pro-abortion activists to justify ghastly late-term dismemberment abortions despite experts warning the studies do not stand up to scrutiny.
Of the two studies cited on the now-deleted webpage, one came under-fire after The New York Times reported that two of the authors had close ties to the abortion industry, a fact that was not disclosed before publication.
The other study, co-authored by Dr. Stuart Derbyshire, was repudiated by Derbyshire himself in 2020 after he discovered that, contrary to his initial findings, unborn babies may be able to feel pain as early as 12 weeks from conception.
Speaking to the Washington Free Beacon, Derbyshire said the “ACOG should approach fetal pain as an open question — a question that is not resolved with any certainty but where there is a reasonable
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