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Tuesday August 11, 1998
UK RESEARCH SHOWS CONCLUSIVELY THAT FETUSES FEEL PAIN
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LONDON, Aug 11 (LSN) - The Electronic Telegraph reported Sunday on groundbreaking research done at University College London (UCL) which has revealed that babies in the womb not only feel pain but are more sensitive to pain than adults and older children thus feeling pain more intensely and for longer duration. Professor Maria Fitzgerald a specialist in developmental neurobiology at the Thomas Lewis Pain Research Centre at UCL, explained that "the premature baby cannot benefit from the natural pain-killing system which in adults dampens down pain messages as they enter the central nervous system."
The findings lend support to a report issued last year by the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology that recommended using analgesia and anesthetics for late-term abortions. Health Minister Tessa Jowell, will address the fetal pain issue with doctors and scientists after the summer parliamentary recess. Pain experts are demanding the use of analgesics and anesthetics for any surgical procedure beginning at the 18th week of development. Astonishingly, a 1986 UK law forbids experiments on animal fetuses beginning at mid-gestation. The Animal (Scientific Procedures) Act, however states that it is there to protect "any living vertebrate other than man".
See the full article at http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000119461713070&rtmo=VxFPjljx&atmo=rrrrrrYs&...
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