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LONDON — Human fetuses cannot feel pain before the age of 24 weeks, a British medical association said Friday — delivering a setback for anti-abortion activists campaigning to lower the country’s 24-week time limit.
The study said nerve connections in the brain were not sufficiently formed to allow pain perception until after 24 weeks and that even after 24 weeks, the fetus was in a state of sleep-like unconsciousness or sedation.
Lawmakers who were considering lowering the limit to 20 to 22 weeks had commissioned the study by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
