Quick thoughts on that new JAMA literature review about how fetuses don’t feel pain until the late stages of pregnancy: 1) Press reports ought to note that the paper’s authors are all committed pro-abortion partisans. If the shoe were on the other foot, they would. 2) That doesn’t mean the paper’s wrong, of course. But its finding is disputed. See, for example, Dr. Kanwaljeet S. Anand’s expert testimony in the New York partial-birth abortion case. 3) Any debate about this subject is bound to help pro-lifers. NARAL was smart not to come out in opposition to the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act. It knows that raising this issue doesn’t help its cause. Because as long as we’re talking about whether unborn children can feel pain, we’re talking about a consideration that militates in favor of life.