“Twenty-five years ago, when Kanwaljeet Anand was a medical resident in a neonatal intensive care unit, his tiny patients, many of them preterm infants, were often wheeled out of the ward and into an operating room. He soon learned what to expect on their return. The babies came back in terrible shape: their skin was gray, their breathing shallow, their pulses weak. Anand spent hours stabilizing their vital signs, increasing their oxygen supply and administering insulin to balance their blood sugar. ‘What’s going on in there to make these babies so stressed?’ Anand wondered. Breaking with hospital practice, he wrangled permission to follow his patients into the O.R. ‘That’s when I discovered that the babies were not getting anesthesia,’ he recalled recently. Infants undergoing major surgery were receiving only a paralytic to keep them still.” [editor’s note: This is a fascinating and extensive article about “fetal pain” … that only affirms this editor’s conviction that some new boundary (between “conception” and birth) needs to be established in the abortion debate - SAT] (02/10/08)