According to this article in USA Today, a rehash of old medical reports suggests that unborn babies probably don't feel pain prior to the 7th month.
A fetal-pain researcher takes issue with the report:
They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest," said Kanwaljeet Anand, a fetal-pain researcher and professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He believes fetuses as young as 20 weeks feel pain. "This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word — definitely not.
Generation Why? writes "Since when did the existence of pain become the criteria for whether we should kill another person? If this is is the criteria, then it should be legal to kill those under anesthesia, in a coma or on painkillers."
La Shawn Barber and her readers are all over it. (Scroll down the page)
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