Do fetuses feel pain?

Do Fetuses Feel Pain?

June 28, 2011, 2:25 pm

By Tom Bartlett

The Alabama state legislature recently passed a ban on abortions after 20 weeks, except when the mother’s health is in danger. Why 20 weeks? A Republican state senator explains: “It’s clear that a baby at 20 weeks experiences pain. There’s no doubt about that.”
More:http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/do-fetuses-feel-pain/27805?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

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Dozens of new restrictions passed by states this year have chipped away at the right to abortion by requiring women to view ultrasounds, imposing waiting periods or cutting funds for clinics. But a new kind of law has gone beyond such restrictions, striking at the foundation of the abortion rules set out by the Supreme Court over the last four decades.

These laws, passed in six states in little more than a year, ban abortions at the 20th week after conception, based on the theory that the fetus can feel pain at that point — a notion disputed by mainstream medical organizations in the United States and Britain.

More: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/us/27abortion.html?_r=1

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Do lobsters feel pain?

One answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKAINA41eFM

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