Study Shows Babies Are Conscious Beings, Two-Month-Olds Still in Question : Stacy TrasancosTRASANCOS: They say they are interested in this for the safety of the baby, to know whether or not anesthesia is needed when doing surgery on very young infants.
The thing is, they say that about studying fetal consciousness too.
However, policy decisions about limiting abortion before 24 weeks depend on these studies. If they admit that a fetus is conscious and can feel pain, people start thinking harder about abortion. But as long as the clump of tissue isn’t conscious, then it’s not really “there”, not really a human “being”, and since “it” can’t feel pain, well, abortion must be no big deal then, right? That’s what abortion advocates say.
