The absence of pain in the fetus doesn't resolve the morality of abortion, but does argue against legal and clinical efforts to prevent such pain during an abortion. A mandate to provide pain relief before an abortion may expose women to inappropriate interventions, risks and distress.

There is one pain I often feel, which you will never know. It is caused by the absence of you.

Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb syndrome?" Julia nodded. "There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see?

Strength doesn't mean an absence of pain.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.

My mother she was heaven bound, I did not see it then but i see it now, being a child wasn't an easy thing watching my back with everything i did, hiding in corners crying for it to stop then silence i can hear it not! the pains she had the marks on her face, the anger i had he was a disgrace, now I'm grown i can show him pain, his life will no longer be the same