Kevin Wayne: PAIN AND ITS EFFECTS IN THE HUMAN NEONATE AND FETUS →
Guess again. There are studies I have referenced as recent as the 90’s, if you are looking at everything I’m posting. Plus the in the .pdf file you link to re the RCOG testimony to a UK Parliamentary subcommittee, but you forgot to read in the back where the committee responded and came to the same conclusion: no conensus.
FAIL again!
Newer studies contradict your outdated and obsolete ones.Oh, wow. The 90s are so recent. I’ve been posting information all from within this decade.
You need to stop forcing yourself into people’s uteri.
Also, RCOG’s reports and studies on the lack of fetal pain and sentience has already been commissioned by the British government.
You need to get your head out of the the past decades and catch up with the times, old man.
Yeahhh…20 years ago? Not recent, especially not if we’re talking scientific studies. I’ll give you a hint: Look for studies within the past 10 years. Better yet, the past five, since fetal pain is such a delicate and tricky subject.
For reference, for you and my followers:
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists’ 2010 update of their 1997 report on fetal awareness: Fetal Awareness - Review of Research and Recommendations for Practice
A recent study that suggests fetuses can’t distinguish touch from pain until 35-37 weeks gestation: A Shift in Sensory Processing that Enables the Developing Human Brain to Discriminate Touch from Pain. We’re still waiting for this one to be duplicated.
Scientists are still determining what pain perception is to a fetus. If they react physically to painful stimuli the way we do (e.g. drawing back), are they still feeling it as we do? There is increasing evidence that the fetus is kept in a state of sedation by chemicals in the amniotic fluid, so even if the brain structures were developed enough to perceive pain, it would not.
Just to help you out a bit more:
How to evaluate scientific studies (so we don’t waste any more of our time looking at bad ones)
More on evaluating studies (this specifically discusses studies on abortion and depression, but can be generalized to others)
