I do not know when a fetus feels pain, do you?
By the seventh week of development, the unborn baby has pain receptors on his face, and over his entire body by the 20th week. Between the 20th and 30th weeks, when the outermost layer of the skin is still very thin and nerve fibers are closer to the surface than they’ll ever be, that’s when the highest density of pain receptors per square inch of skin is found. Pain inhibitory mechanisms do not begin to develop until the 32nd to 34th weeks. Therefore, the baby between 20 and 32 weeks of gestation experiences a much more intense pain than older infants, children or adults. That does not mean that the unborn baby cannot feel pain earlier but that, since obviously he cannot talk and tell us, that is as early as we can know with certainty that he or she feels pain.
This is the whole idea of the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act (S. 2466, H.R. 4420). This bill would require every abortionist to provide, whenever a woman seeks an abortion past 20 weeks after fertilization, specified information about the capacity of her unborn child to experience pain during the abortion, after which the woman must either accept or refuse (by signing a form) the administration of pain-reducing drugs directly to the unborn child. The bill would apply to all abortions past 20 weeks, regardless of the method used.
About the time a nervous system is intact. Do you know at what point in the pregnancy that takes place? To think infants or preborn children feel no pain is unfathomable. Doctors up until nearly now operated on infants with no anesthetic because their nervous systems were not developed and they felt no pain. DOCTORS did this! Have you ever witnessed a male newborn having during a circumcision? Traumatizing! For child and mother!
Well, to tell you the truth, if you talk in a precisely medical sense, internal organs form and heart beats @ 6 weeks but a responsive nervous system is in place @ 10 weeks. That would be the time when a measurable response to pain would occur.