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At what point are fetuses capable of feeling pain?
At what point are fetuses capable of feeling pain?
12 weeks after conception
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According to Janet L. Hopson, science textbook writer and instructor at San Francisco State University, fetuses are capable of feeling pain by week 12. Abortion is wrong because it inflicts pain on a living defenseless human being.
Not until birth
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The biological development necessary to support pain experience does not occur until birth.