[West Ender]

I am anti-abortion on principle but I will not get into a pro/con discussion here. The point at issue is the lowering of foetal age to 22 weeks and what worries me is the question of whether a foetus can feel pain. As a baby (note the different terminology when it's a wanted pregnancy) born at 24 weeks gestation can survive, with luck and good nursing, I assume it must be able to feel pain. The same child, while still in the womb, must also feel the same pain as its sensors are at a similar stage of development. Is it right to inflict pain on, not to say kill, a viable child?