
My guess is this study was done by abortion providers, right?
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The scientists on one of the studies I provided (which concluded that based on the best available scientific evidence, a human fetus probably does not have the capacity to experience pain until the 29th week of pregnancy at the earliest -- Lee SJ, Ralston HJ, Drey EA, Partridge JC, Rosen MA. Fetal pain: a systematic multidisciplinary review of the evidence. JAMA. 2005 Aug 24;294[8]:947-54, and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association) included:
Mark Rosen, MD, is Professor of Anesthesia; Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences; and Director of Obstetrical Anesthesia at UCSF. Dr. Rosen is a leading expert in anesthesia use in the context of fetal surgery.
Henry J. Ralston III, MD, PhD, is Professor of Anatomy and faculty in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at UCSF. His research laboratory investigates the organization of the neural networks that serve somatic sensation, including pain, in the mammal.
J. Colin Partridge, MD, is the Health Sciences Clinical Professor and the Academy Chair in Pediatric Education in the Department of Pediatrics at UCSF. Dr. Partridge is a neonatologist specializing in the care of extremely premature newborns.
Eleanor Drey, MD, EdM, is Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at UCSF. Dr. Drey is the Director of the Women’s Options Center and is an expert in the provision of late abortion care.
Susan Lee, JD, MD, was a medical student at UCSF at the time the article was published and is now a resident and research fellow in the Department of Surgery at UCSF.
In March 2010, the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (RCOG) published a review of all studies on fetal awareness and recommendations for practice. The review was the result of one year of study by ten experts from all relevant fields. Expert participants were:
• Professor Allan Templeton FRCOG (Chair)
• Professor Richard Anderson FRCOG, Reproductive Medicine Specialist,
• University of Edinburgh
• Ms Toni Belfield, Member of the RCOG Consumers’ Forum
• Dr Stuart Derbyshire, SeniorLecturer, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham
• Mrs Kay Ellis, Department of Health Observer
• Ms Jane Fisher, Director, Antenatal Results and Choices (ARC)
• Professor Maria Fitzgerald, Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, UCL London
• Dr Tahir Mahmood, RCOG VicePresident (Standards)
• Professor Neil Marlow, Neonatologist, UCL London
• Professor Vivienne Nathanson, Director of Professional Activities,
• British Medical Association
• Professor Donald Peebles FRCOG, Obstetrician, UCL, London
• Ms Stephanie Michaelides, Royal College of Midwives
• Supported by Mrs Charnjit Dhillon, RCOG Director of Standards
The RCOG study confirmed the key points of the UCSF review conducted 5 years earlier.
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