Do fetuses feel pain? We don't know; better to err on the safe side from mid-gestation.
Glover
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Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, London.
Fisk
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N
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