Modern societies value freedom, human beings time immemorial have valued and fought for freedom the antonym of freedom is "slavery" or "controlled against their will"
In the modern society is there not a place for "Animal freedom"?
Is there not a distaste for "Animal abuse"?
Will anyone in modern society tolerate a person inflicting injury on an animal?
Will any human being, irrespective of creed and color, irrespective of status, irrespective of whether he is liberal or a communist or a conservative , any human being tolerate a person lashing on an animal?
What is your reaction to this picture of a calf taken during a rodeo?If your reaction was "life should not suffer pain" or "life should not suffer"
or "animals should not suffer but humans can"
What about the pain suffered by the unborn fetus? (during the process of abortion) even to pull a tooth grown up adults are looking for pain killers. Even for a back sprain people are looking to pain killers.
Does not our many indulgence an "antidote" for stress and pain? Marijuana, drinking, smoking or even binge eating, boxing the pillow
I am sure everyone irrespective of their cause, creed and belief will agree that "physical pain should not be inflicted on any life at any stage" No one, liberal, democrat, conservative, Amish, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Protestant, Communities, Fascist and all the "ists" except for the "terrorists" would agree "physical pain should not be inflicted on any life at any stage"
Does not we as a society eliminated the "corporal punishment of children"?
Then why inflicting pain on the unborn fetus is overlooked?
Below is video showing how the fetus reacts (weeks unknown)
What is needed (biologically) to feel pain?
- First you should have the "mechanism" (the neuroanatomical pathway) or simply put all the "hardware" the wires should be in place
- Second you should have a "computer" (physical brain development) to which these wires should be connected
- Third the computer should have a its "software" or the logic to translate the signals and then react (type A in keyboard and you see A in monitor) a.k.a in medical parlance "stereotypical hormonal stress response"
- And lastly the "poke" or the stimuli
Does a fetus feel pain? - Arguments and Facts
Let us hear one Professor Stuart WG Derbyshire
His conclusion is "fetuses cannot feel pain"
Though he accepts that the "mechanism" is considered complete by the 23-26 weeks and he also accepts that by the 18th the "software" is thier ...The stereotypical hormonal stress response of adults or older infants, of about 18 months onwards, reporting pain is observable in fetuses at 18 weeks' gestation..
His conclusion is based on "pain" being a subjective issue "..Pain experience requires development of the brain but also requires development of the mind to accommodate the subjectivity of pain..?
In layman terms he thinks the fetus is "too young" to feel pain based on his logic that "needs a developed mind" to feel pain, to support this he gives an example of a larva worm when subjected to a lighter flame, he says though the larva coils or bends away "Can it be said it felt pain?" he terms it simply as a muscular reaction and he concludes that the larva "does not have the capacity" to feel pain
Let us for moment imagine in different ways
1) If you squash an egg (with embryo) do you think the ege will feel pain?
2) Or if you pour semen in hot water do you think the sperms will feel pain?
3) If you "slaughter" a cow , do you think it fails pain?
Don't you agree that somewhere in the stage of being a simple sperm (or an egg) to a throbbing fetus with a heart and brain to the wailing new born baby, there is a "pain reception"?
Somewhere in those 40 weeks of gestation..? definitely "yes" on the 40th week, the baby is full term, definitely "no" when the sperm and egg has just met each other.
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