12-26-2018, 08:25 PM
(12-26-2018, 08:01 PM)bfine32 Wrote: So the difference is the use of the word excruciating?
It's a big difference. At 8 weeks, a fetus has the beginnings of the architecture that allow pain sensations to be transmitted. That is what the science tells us. The degree to which a fetus feels pain at 8 weeks is not known but we know that the ability to feel pain completely is not developed until much later, at 20 weeks. Since intense pain sensations require a more developed architecture within the nervous system, it is highly unlikely that a fetus at 8 weeks is able to feel excruciating pain. That would happen sometime later in the development. Because of this, the continued use of the word excruciating is misleading, if not outright lying, with the intent to make an argument to emotion.
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