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To: Hank Kerchief
My God does no allow the unborn to feel pain.

Do you make it a habit of telling God what to do?

I will not post the relevant biblical passages to counter your notion that the "unborn" are insensate, but I will post this reference to a study which is counter to your intuition.

Womb Music

Facing the Music

For the study, "How Music Heard in the Womb is Remembered by the Child," 12 expectant mothers were asked to choose a piece of music that they enjoyed and to play it to their babies for the three months before the birth.

When 11 of the children were one year old they were tested for recognition of the music by being placed in a room with two speakers. The study does not say why one baby was not tested.

  New Ultrasound Gives Womb With a View

Each speaker played a piece of music: One was the prenatal music and the other was a piece of music chosen for its similarity in key, pace, and loudness. Atop each speaker was a ball with colored lights.

Researchers recorded the length of time the babies spent looking at each ball — implying they were listening to each piece of music.

Each baby, none of whom could speak, showed a clear preference for the music they had been exposed to while in the womb. A control group of children showed no preference for either piece of music.


80 posted on 02/11/2002 6:05:05 AM PST by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC
Hank's God lets the music in but not the pain.

Hank sounds like somone who is in denial over whether pain can be felt by the unborn. Maybe its best if Hank is left with that impression. The truth may be too hard.

88 posted on 02/11/2002 6:54:13 AM PST by VRWC_minion
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