Premature babies can feel pain, scans show

No really? Who would have guessed? So maybe it's not a very far logical jump to say that late term aborted babies feel pain as they have a hole punched in their heads and have their brains sucked out? Sucking out brains. This is the subject matter of "B" grade horror movies, not something that I should have to be talking about on a Christian based blog. But this type of thing goes on in abortion clinics around the world every day.
Now they say premature babies feel pain. What kind of person is so into themselves that they could intentionally cause pain in a baby? It is beyond me to understanding what makes this type of monster, mascarading as healthcare professional, tick. Someone, please explain it to me.

Premature babies experience real pain rather than just displaying reflex reactions, scientists said yesterday.
Brain scans carried out on premature babies during blood tests showed surges of blood and oxygen in the sensory areas of their brains - demonstrating that pain was being processed.
Previous research had shown that even the youngest newborns are capable of showing the behavioural signs of pain but it had been unclear whether these were simply bodily reflexes.
Prof Maria Fitzgerald, from the department of anatomy and developmental biology at University College London, who led the team, said: "We have shown for the first time that the information about pain reaches the brain in premature babies.
"While previous research shows that even the youngest newborn infants are capable of displaying behavioural, physiological and metabolic signs of pain and distress, the measures are all indirect and could be dismissed as bodily reflex reactions rather than measures of true pain.
"These babies' brains are so immature it was difficult to genuinely know that the pain was going to their brain."
Prof Fitzgerald said that there was a "lack of basic information" about dealing with pain in premature babies and she hoped the research would lead to better control of pain in premature baby units.
"Nursing staff are not callous in dealing with these babies, but now we know for sure that pain information goes to the brain.
"As a result, while considerable effort is made to provide clinical pain control in babies undergoing invasive procedures, this remains suboptimal in many units."
The study, published in The Journal of Neuroscience, involved scans on 18 babies born at between 24 weeks and 37 weeks in the neonatal unit at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital in west London.
The scientists registered the brain activity in the premature babies before, during and after nurses performed blood tests using a heel lance.
This showed surges of blood and oxygen in the somatosensory cortex, the part of the brain that processes sensations from the body's surface and is known to be linked to feelings of pain in adults.
Britain has the highest rate of low birth-weight babies in Western Europe, with about 12 per cent of all babies needing some special care at birth and about 2.5 per cent needing neonatal intensive care - some 17,000 babies per year.
Babies in intensive care undergo an average of 14 procedures per day, many of which are considered by clinical staff to be painful, such as inserting chest tubes.
The research also suggested that babies "remember" the painful experience and this could lead to an increased sensitivity to other, non-painful, procedures.
Prof Fitzgerald added: "Since pain information is transmitted to the pre-term infant cortex from 25 weeks, there is the potential for pain experience to influence brain development from a very early age as the brain is highly malleable at this stage."
A spokesman for Bliss, a premature baby charity, said the findings confirmed the need for a pain protocol for premature babies. "Only 20 per cent of neonatal units in the UK regularly use a pain tool to assess chronic pain," said the spokesman.
"We strongly believe there is no justification for babies to be in pain and that more attention should be paid to providing comfort and relief when painful procedures are undertaken whilst they are in neonatal care."