Foetal pain study findings challenged

I READ your report (Irish Examiner, August 26) on the foetal pain study printed in the Journal of the American Medical Association stating that foetuses do not experience pain until the 28th week of gestation.

I might have missed it, but I have not seen the follow-up story in your paper.

The editor of the AMA Journal, Dr Catherine De Angelis, has stated she was unaware that the lead author of the study is a former attorney for the abortion advocacy group, NARAL, and that another author is the medical director of the abortion centre at San Francisco General Hospital. She acknowledged that this revelation could hurt the credibility of the publication.