Fetal pain study: conflict of interest

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has published the results of a study purporting to show that unborn babies younger than 29 weeks do not feel pain. Now a conflict of interest has been uncovered: one of the authors had worked for an abortion advocacy group and the other is the medical director of an abortion centre at a major hospital in the US. JAMA's editor claims to have been unaware of these connections before the article was published.