[ExxonPatrolUs]

If premature babies require pain killers, wouldn’t a fetus have feelings too? Yet, I challenge you to find a study that suggests a fetus feels pain. That crazy science thing can make you go nuts about subjects like this.

[Outlaw Woman]

I’m assuming that screaming by the premie is an indicator of pain. Since screaming inside the womb can’t be heard...must be no pain. /s

[LukeL]

But jabbing a scissors into the base of the skull and sucking out a brain causes no pain? Dismembering the child in the womb no pain? Injecting a saline solution into the womb casing chemical burns and basically turning the kid into jerky, no pain?

[newzjunkey]

If premature babies require pain killers, wouldn’t a fetus have feelings too?

Certainly those in "late term" abortions but I don't think that's ever been in dispute and why even Roe vs Wade frowns on 3rd trimester abortion.

I don't know if it's clearly established when the unborn "fetus" can begin to feel pain.

[ExxonPatrolUs]

[org.whodat]

Ok, what pervert is sticking pins in babies.

[maica]

Premature babies feel pain more acutely than healthy newborns largely due to the invasive hospital treatments they receive, experts believe.

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Let’s hear it for the “experts.” /sarc
Perhaps they could just ask a NICU nurse if preemies are acutely aware of any touch, not just painful procedures. They have very little subcutaneous fat, so their nerves are very close to the surface of their skin. They do the best when the medical staff try to imitate their life in the womb as much as possible.

It did take years of “studies” for nurses to convince doctors to order analgesia before doing a procedure on a prem. By now it is standard procedure, and the positive results are evident in any longterm follow-up studies of premature babies.