In a 1994 study in Lancet, scientists determined that the unborn do feel pain by studying hormonal stress reactions in the unborn baby. They recommend that anesthesia be used when operating on unborn children and went on to say:
“This applies not just to diagnostic and therapeutic procedures on the fetus, but possibly also to termination of pregnancy, especially by surgical techniques involving dismemberment.”
Giannakoulopoulos X, Sepulveda W, Kourtis P, Glover V, Fisk NM. Fetal plasma cortisol and β-endorphin response to intrauterine needling Lancet. 344 (1994) 77-81.
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