Unborn babies may feel pain beginning with the seventeenth week of gestation suggests Professor Vivette Glover of the Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital in London, UK:
Professor Glover supports legalized abortion, but she asserts that
“one should not muddle the two. One should think about how one is doing [the abortion] in the most pain-free way.”
Professor Glover goes on to say:
“Between 17 and 26 [weeks] it is increasingly possible that it [the unborn baby] starts to feel something and that abortions done in that period ought to use anaesthesia.”
London Telegraph, August 28, 2000
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