SeminoleMarine
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By DENISE GRADY
New York Times
CHICAGO - Taking on one of the most highly charged questions in the abortion debate, a team of doctors has concluded that fetuses probably cannot feel pain in the first six months of gestation and therefore do not need anesthesia during abortions.
Their report, being published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association, is based on a review of several hundred scientific papers, and it says that nerve connections in the brain are unlikely to have developed enough for the fetus to feel pain before 29 weeks.
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The two highlighted words are enough for me to see that this is a guess. So, I will get together with a team of doctors tomorrow and we will come out with an announcement that fetuses probably do feel pain and therefore the nerve connections in the brain have more than likely developed enough for it to feel pain, making it necessary to administer anesthesia.
New York Times
CHICAGO - Taking on one of the most highly charged questions in the abortion debate, a team of doctors has concluded that fetuses probably cannot feel pain in the first six months of gestation and therefore do not need anesthesia during abortions.
Their report, being published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association, is based on a review of several hundred scientific papers, and it says that nerve connections in the brain are unlikely to have developed enough for the fetus to feel pain before 29 weeks.
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The two highlighted words are enough for me to see that this is a guess. So, I will get together with a team of doctors tomorrow and we will come out with an announcement that fetuses probably do feel pain and therefore the nerve connections in the brain have more than likely developed enough for it to feel pain, making it necessary to administer anesthesia.