Fetal Pain Article Biased?

No doubt you have seen in the mainstream media the report that new findings question whether unborn children feel pain. There are several interesting points. First, I am surprised at the amount of news coverage compared to that of in 2001 when Dr. Benatar presented his findings about fetal pain. Second, news reports are now coming out about the conflict of interest of several of the authors of the article. The primary author Susan Lee has previously interned for the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) Pro-Choice America. A second author on the paper, Dr. Eleanor Drey, is a director of a Women's Health Center (Abortion Clinic) in San Francisco. Having someone from the abortion industry write a review of fetal pain journal articles is like having someone from the tobacco industry review the current research on a cigarette/ cancer link. In 2004 the San Francisco Chronicle declared Dr. Drey a local hero and quoting her as saying:

"I always feel that I should be doing more. Everybody in this field, you're always worried that your patients might lose care just because of who's elected."

I think what she meant to say is this: "I am getting desperate because abortions are on decline. Everybody in the abortion industry is worry that they may have to stop making money. We need to start making up facts before we can't dig ourselves out of this hole."

Is fetal pain really relevant to abortion? It does make the issue more personal (nobody likes young children in pain). If the fetus feels no pain does that make her any less human or any less of a person?