Reply #74: What's cruel about it?

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These are fetuses that for all practical purposes are already dead.

In the case of anacephalic, there is only a remedial brain stem and in the case of hydrocephalic there is only fluid where the brain should have developed.

So exactly how cruel is it to remove the contents from the skull of a fetus that is not capable of feeling pain or suffering, when the only thing keeping it alive is the umbilical cord which will be cut shortly anyway?