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"This is the first evidence that the human foetus mounts a мЅe#Р ёx‡,l,l  ЊG(ь˜Tю GTimes New Roman Symbol ArialTimes New RomanUNBORN CHILDREN RESPOND TO PAIN AT TEN WEEKS BY JEREMY LAURANCE, HEALTH CORRESPONDENT, London Times- The unborn foetus is capable of feeling pain from the tenth week of pregnancy, according to a report from the Parliamentary Pro-Life Group that will raise new doubts about the ethics of abortion. The report of findings by 15 scientists from Britain, Ireland and Australia will say that foetuses can experience pain earlier than previously thought. If confirmed, this could mean a radical revision of abortion practice to ensure that foetuses are anaesthetised before being removed from the womb. Of the 165,000 abortions carried out in England and Wales each year, about 100,000 are performed at nine weeks or later. The report, published today, runs counter to evidence presented in an official review by Maria Fitzgerald, professor of neurodevelopmental biology at University College Hospital, London, which was commissioned by the Health Department. The report, Foetal pain - an update of current scientific knowledge, published in May 1995, concluded that there was no evidence that the foetus could feel pain earlier than 26 weeks because its brain and neurological system were not sufficiently developed. Some scientists, not linked with the Parliamentary Pro-Life Group, are questioning this conclusion. As reported in The Times last February, Nicholas Fisk and Vivette Glover, two of Britain's foremost researchers on foetal pain, say the issue demands examination. Advances in surgery mean that many foetuses undergo operations inside the womb without analgesia even though pain relief is routinely given to premature babies of the same gestational age undergoing the procedure after birth. Dr Glover, a psychopharmacologist in the department of paediatrics at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, Chiswick, London, said that the perception of pain required consciousness which, in adults, depended on electrical activity in the cortex of the brain. "Below 13 weeks' gestation, the foetus has no such cortical activity. After 26 weeks the full anatomical system is present and the foetus is quite likely to feel pain. The area of uncertainty is between 13 and 26 weeks," she said. Professor Fisk, also of Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, measured levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, in foetuses from which blood samples were taken in the womb. He found that the level rose sharply as the needle was inserted. "This is the first evidence that the human foetus mounts a definable stress response to a potentially painful stimulus," he said. Other experts have criticised these observations, saying that there are huge differences in individual responses to pain and an unclear margin between pleasure and pain, which could not be distinguished in terms of hormonal responses. A spokesman for the Parliamentary Pro-Life Group said yesterday: "The onus of proof is now on those who say the foetus does not fe