Foetuses ‘do not feel pain until week 28’

A REVIEW of medical evidence has found that foetuses do not feel pain until the final months of pregnancy - a powerful challenge to abortion opponents who hope that discussions about foetal pain will make women think twice.

Critics angrily disputed the findings and claimed the report was biased.

“They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets’ nest,” said Dr Kanwaljeet Anand, a foetal pain researcher at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, who believes foetuses as young as 20 weeks old feel pain.