An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
Fetal pain
 
 
8 March 2011

USA: Nebraska’s late abortion ban forces mother to give birth to dying baby

The state’s new ‘fetal pain’ law meant that Danielle Deaver had to wait to give birth to a baby that she and her doctors knew would die minutes later, reports NebraskaStatePaper.com.

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  2 November 2010

What makes life sacred?

Dr Stuart Derbyshire’s speech from the Battle of Ideas. 

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7 July 2010

The science of ‘fetal pain’, and the ethics of abortion

Commentary by Stuart Derbyshire, a member of the Working Party that produced the RCOG’s new reports on fetal awareness. 

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25 June 2010

UK: Important new review on fetal awareness published

There is no new evidence to show fetuses feel pain in the womb before 24 weeks, a report by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has stated.

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  12 June 2008

Fetal pain and the politicisation of science

Attempting to resolve the question of abortion through debates about fetal pain is damaging for both science and politics, argues Dr Stuart Derbyshire.

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  1 February 2008

Anti-abortion MP hosts fetal pain meeting

Tory MP Nadine Dorries in January organised a meeting for MPs titled ‘Time to reduce the upper limit for abortion’.

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  21 April 2006

Fetuses cannot feel pain, says expert

In a review of evidence for the existence of fetal pain for the BMJ, Dr Stuart Derbyshire said that telling women who are considering abortions that fetuses could feel pain was inaccurate and exposed them to inappropriate medical treatment.

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