Abortion is one of those hot-button topics that can divide a room immediately.

Why is it so divisive?

Well, on one side, we’ve got those that believe in the sanctity of innocent, unborn human beings …

While on the other, we’ve got people that focus on the desires and wellbeing of the mother, prioritizing her wishes over anything else.

One thinks it’s about having the choice to do as they wish with their own bodies…

While the other believes it’s about allowing the life growing to have a chance.

Who’s right?

Well, there is morality on both sides if you truly look at the issue…

For pro-abortion advocates, the morality comes from an American ideal: the freedom to choose what to do to our own bodies. Nobody likes being told what they can and can’t do, especially pertaining to their own body—so taking a stance for the freedom to choose is based on a desire for personal freedom.

However…

Pro-lifers’ moral stance comes from the fact that the child is an innocent living being. Murder is wrong no matter how you justify it, and because we don’t see that child as a clump of cells or a parasite, terminating it is murder. According to this side, at the moment of conception, that child has as many rights as any American citizen outside the womb.

However…

It’s the issue of whether that child is ACTUALLY alive that comprises the main argument between the two sides.

A Child? Or A Clump Of Cells?

Pro-choicers say it’s not an actual child; it’s a clump of cells that COULD BECOME a child. If it’s unwanted, then it’s nothing more than an uninvited guest in a woman’s body, and she gets to decide what is and is not allowed to remain.

But now – they’re going beyond that…

Now, they have to go ALL in and say they believe in abortion right up until the moment of birth!

It’s crazy…

The truth is that, once you’re pregnant, it’s no longer just ONE body – it’s two.

Their other argument?

What about those women who are impregnated by rape? What if a mother’s life is threatened by carrying a pregnancy to term?

Well, cases like those make up less than 1% of abortions performed in America, so that argument really doesn’t hold water…

So they stick with the “clump of cells” angle.

However…

Science has just revealed something that may change people’s minds.

New Development On Fetal Pain

Medical experts are now saying that babies—or clumps of cells, if you’re on the opposite side—can feel pain at 24 weeks…and some can even feel pain as early as 13 weeks!

That’s a sobering thought…

But two medical researchers—including a pro-choice British pain expert who used to think there was absolutely no WAY that a fetus could feel pain so early in the development cycle—are now saying that recent studies strongly suggest that everything we’ve thought thus far might be incorrect.

The main author of the study is British professor Stuart Derbyshire, who was a consultant to the Pro-Choice Forum in the UK, as well as Planned Parenthood. In a shocking twist, he has just reversed his stance on fetal pain…

Derbyshire and medic John Bockmann say there is now “good evidence” that the brain and nervous system are sufficiently wired to experience pain by the 18-week mark—if not earlier for some children.

Understand that before, it was believed that the cortex—the outer part of the brain that receives sensory information—was not developed enough for pain to register…

This was something commonly accepted by numerous health organizations.

However, recent research now presents evidence that a fetal cortex CAN experience pain – with one study finding that an adult with a damaged cortex could still feel pain…

Which would make that previous consensus no longer valid.

Will this new development change minds?

Will this new information stop people from having abortions going forward?

Or will the narrative shift to find some workaround, still claiming morality while ignoring science?

Only time will tell.

“Compassion is the basis of morality.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer