distressful

"Our experiments revealed that when people simulated distressful scenarios of other individuals, they felt much more personal distress than when these scenarios were not simulated. Interestingly, we also found imagining these scenarios in such a way increased the willingness to help that individual," says Sheldon, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory.

When a 2-year-old beagle named Fin was carried out in September from the Envigo breeding and research facility in Cumberland, Va., his exit marked the end of a nearly 60-day operation to rescue almost 4,000 dogs that had been living in highly distressful conditions.

“Those were distressful days,” he said.

The State observed in its brief that, “Roe suggested that, without abortion, unwanted children could ‘force upon’ women “a distressful life and future.”

When Roe was decided in 1973, she wrote, the justices maintained that an unwanted pregnancy would doom women to “a distressful life and future.”