Reply #16: The title reverses the study. "Infants born at 28 to 35 weeks of development showed comparable...

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... brain activity."

This is opposite to claiming that pain starts at 35 weeks. It would move pain to 28 weeks at latest, but actually says nothing about when pain starts.

The consensus scientific position puts this neonatal perception at 24 to 26 weeks. The establishment of thalamocortical connections (at about 26 weeks) is the critical development event that enables routing of pain impulses to the brain.

Prior to that development period the fetal nerve system is immature, as well, which could cause constant horrific pain to the fetus/unborn_child if the thalamocortical connection matured too early.

Abortion rights and issues of legal abortion are not well served for sensible discussion by such as this sloppy write-up of a scientific research article.