Health Minister misleads public over fetal pain | NRL News Today: Martin Ward Platt, of the Newcastle Neonatal Service, who actually supports the current abortion law, argues that the Royal College of Ob/Gyns report is a political rather than a scientific document which aims to shore up the pre-existing position of the RCOG rather than taking a dispassionate view of the scientific evidence.
He argues, contrary to the RCOG, that over the last 20 or more years, researchers have accumulated good observational, experimental and pathophysiological reasons to consider that babies at gestations below 24 weeks do feel pain, that they benefit from analgesia, and that pain experiences in early life cast neurophysiological and behavioural shadows far down childhood.
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