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In a report published on 25 June by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, it was claimed that the fetus cannot 'feel' pain before 24 weeks' gestation as nerve connections in the cerebral cortex are not sufficiently developed.
See Peter Saunders' blog and follow the links in it for the fetal pain story, and watch Josephine Quintavalle of CORE, Comment on Reproductive Ethics, on the wider implications of the Report for the abortion debate.
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