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To: i-node who wrote (875660)	7/27/2015 7:29:11 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578448

We know, for example, that The existence of a developed cortex is not a precondition to sentience and there is reason to believe a fetus might feel pain as early as 14 weeks that I am aware of. At 20 weeks, the fetus still doesn't have a sensory system. It doesn't respond to external events because it can't sense them. Sentience cannot have developed because babies aren't born insane. As to pain at 14 weeks, there is no credible reason to believe such a thing. The structures in the brain that process pain don't develop until at least 24 weeks. Now there are claims to the contrary, but they are based on junk science.