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With the best of technology, a 20-week-old fetus may occasionally be kept alive, but without it even a 36-week-old fetus may perish. In the future it will probably become possible to sustain a human organism in a special artificial incubator from fertilization for a period of nine months, making viability a moot point.

The best estimate for the onset of consciousness in the fetus (especially the beginning of pain perception) is at 27 weeks gestational age, which is roughly 25 weeks from conception.

Again, focusing on pain perception in their 2005 article in the Journal of the American medical association, Lee, Ralston, and Drey concluded: "Pain is an emotional and psychological experience that requires conscious recognition of a noxious stimulus. Consequently, the capacity for conscious perception of pain can arise only after thalamocortical pathways begin to function, which may occur in the third trimester around 29 to 30 weeks’ gestational age, based on the limited data available"

Christof Koch, one of the world's leading neuroscientists who worked for many years with the Francis Crick, has said " But when does the magical journey of consciousness begin? Consciousness requires a sophisticated network of highly interconnected components, nerve cells. Its physical substrate, the thalamo-cortical complex that provides consciousness with its highly elaborate content, begins to be in place between the 24th and 28th week of gestation.

The best estimate for the onset of consciousness in the fetus (especially the beginning of pain perception) is at 27 weeks gestational age, which is roughly 25 weeks from conception.

Christof Koch, one of the world's leading neuroscientists who worked for many years with the Francis Crick, . . .

DoubtingThomas wrote:So it seems an unborn child is not just a body organ.

canpakes wrote:

DoubtingThomas wrote:So it seems an unborn child is not just a body organ.

And a lot of non-human critters feel pain.

Now what?

canpakes wrote:

DoubtingThomas wrote:So it seems an unborn child is not just a body organ.

And a lot of non-human critters feel pain.

Now what?

canpakes wrote:

DoubtingThomas wrote:So it seems an unborn child is not just a body organ.

And a lot of non-human critters feel pain.

Now what?

With the best of technology, a 20-week-old fetus may occasionally be kept alive, but without it even a 36-week-old fetus may perish. In the future it will probably become possible to sustain a human organism in a special artificial incubator from fertilization for a period of nine months, making viability a moot point.

canpakes wrote:And a lot of non-human critters feel pain.

Now what?

subgenius wrote:now you prove that anything other than you feels pain?