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Fetus Cannot Feel Pain, Expert Says
yahoo.com ^ | 4/14/06

Posted on 04/14/2006 11:58:49 AM PDT by paudio

FRIDAY, April 14 (HealthDay News) -- Fetuses cannot feel pain, therefore U.S. legislation requiring doctors to tell women that the fetus will feel pain, or to provide pain relief during abortions, has no scientific basis and may harm the women involved, a leading expert contends.

"This is an unwarranted piece of legislation because there is good evidence that the fetus cannot feel pain at any stage of gestation," said Stuart Derbyshire, senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Birmingham, U.K.

He authored an review of the available data on the subject in the April 15 issue of the British Medical Journal.

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One research--regardless who done it or how it was done-- is enough to make it an 'established science'... /s
1 posted on 04/14/2006 11:58:51 AM PDT by paudio
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To: paudio

How is it known that a fetus has no pain? Do nerves magically develop as soon as a baby is born, but not a minute before?


2 posted on 04/14/2006 12:01:08 PM PDT by SaveTheChief ("This one goes to eleven.")
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Thank god for this news, now I can be in favor of abortions.


3 posted on 04/14/2006 12:01:11 PM PDT by freeplancer
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To: paudio

Not true. If he/she responds to outside stimuli then they feel something. Look at an ultrasound and see how baby moves and grooves when the wand is placed over a woman's stomach and moved around. See him move when he is poked and prodded.


4 posted on 04/14/2006 12:01:54 PM PDT by misterrob (Teach a Liberal to think for himself and he'll vote Conservative for the rest of his life.)
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To: paudio

I heard the same is true for death row convicts, therefore the requirement of certain states to ensure they are unconscious before administering the lethal dose is unwarranted.....


5 posted on 04/14/2006 12:01:58 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: paudio
at any stage of gestation,"

It's the superlatives that will do in the liars every time.

6 posted on 04/14/2006 12:02:03 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (California bashers will be called out)
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To: paudio
He authored an [sic] review of the available data on the subject in the April 15 issue of the British Medical Journal.

A review ... not hands-on testing, no first hand knowledge. Hearsay, your honor. Strike his testimony fromt he record.

7 posted on 04/14/2006 12:02:10 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (If McKinney gets a free slap, then we all should get a free slap)
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To: SaveTheChief

Complete and utter bullsh!t! So preemies can feel no pain?
Only a moron could believe this crap!


8 posted on 04/14/2006 12:04:33 PM PDT by derllak
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To: paudio
Until quite recently, they also operated on infants WITHOUT anesthesia because, Science claimed, Infants couldn't feel pain.

And we all know that, (contrary to what we all know ;o) ) that small babies can't smile - "...it's just gas"

9 posted on 04/14/2006 12:04:35 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (",,,BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME" Lincoln)
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To: paudio

This is absolutely untrue and damaging to our culture to have it be believed. Not only can fetuses feel physical pain (to say otherwise is to say they develop a full-blown nervous sytem the instant they pass out of the mother's body), they also feel and react to negative and positive emotions of their mothers.

This won't suit the scientists who want to believe a lie, but I offer this as evidence of the life-reacting power within a human fetus.

Luke 1:39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah;
40 And entered into the house of Zacharias, and greeted Elisabeth [who was six months into her pregnancy, carrying the future John, the Baptist].
41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost.


10 posted on 04/14/2006 12:04:38 PM PDT by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
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To: SaveTheChief

The Brain Switch must not be switched on before the smack on the butt.


11 posted on 04/14/2006 12:04:58 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: paudio

No pain at ANY POINT??? This "research" doesn't pass the smell test.


12 posted on 04/14/2006 12:05:04 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might.)
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To: paudio
A stiff pri_k has no conscience.
13 posted on 04/14/2006 12:05:06 PM PDT by johnny7 (“Nah, I ain’t Jewish, I just don’t dig on swine, that’s all.”)
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To: SaveTheChief

GMTA
(great minds think alike; see my post at #10)


14 posted on 04/14/2006 12:05:42 PM PDT by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

at any stage of gestation,"


It's the superlatives that will do in the liars every time.

Ha Ha Ha!

Indeed.

That jaw-dropping phrase of ignorant broad-brushing is not worthy of even a junior high school report. More the stuff of Bagdad Bob, Herr Goebbels or Pravda.


15 posted on 04/14/2006 12:06:18 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: All
Should have included verse 44:

"For behold, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy."

16 posted on 04/14/2006 12:06:55 PM PDT by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
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To: derllak
Complete and utter bullsh!t! So preemies can feel no pain? Only a moron could believe this crap!

People will say anything, or find any "expert" to do a biased study, in order to push their agenda and sway the weak minded.

17 posted on 04/14/2006 12:07:29 PM PDT by SaveTheChief ("This one goes to eleven.")
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To: paudio
I tend to believe this. I have asked hundred of fetuses this very same question and not one of them gave me a clear answer.
18 posted on 04/14/2006 12:08:22 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: paudio
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19 posted on 04/14/2006 12:09:30 PM PDT by RichInOC (...Best. Commercial. EVER.)
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To: GretchenM
GMTA

LOL. What are the odds?

20 posted on 04/14/2006 12:10:16 PM PDT by SaveTheChief ("This one goes to eleven.")
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