Abortion Doctors Exposed

No doubt you have heard the supposed "medical report" that claims babies do not feel pain before 7 months. The editor of the medical journal that published the report is Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor in chief of The Journal of the American Medical Association. She is (for the record) a self described staunch Roman Catholic and strongly opposes abortion, though she also supports women's right to choose.

The real suspicion over this report comes from those responsible for it. One of the five authors of the article is a University of California, San Francisco obstetrician who works at an abortion clinic and a second author - a UCSF medical student and lawyer - worked for several months at the advocacy group NARAL Pro-Choice America.

DeAngelis said the obstetrician's experience is not a conflict because performing abortions is often part of that job. She said she would have published the medical student's NARAL connection as a potential conflict of interest had she known about it in advance, but that not mentioning it does not mean that the article or journal are biased.

DeAngelis said she attends Mass at least weekly and is also a Eucharistic minister, which allows her to administer communion to fellow Catholics. I would suggest her parish priest sit down and have a discussion with her over the teaching of the Church on this matter.

The Associated Press