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 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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