Dear editor,
A fetus is no bunch of sleeping cells. Through new neonatology studies it's been discovered fetuses feel pain more acutely than a newborn baby, for the fetus hasn't developed a strategy to avoid this pain.
Thomas Verny assures that on the fifth month of pregnancy the fetus protects its ears and eyes from loud noises or strong light. Dr. Carlo Bellieni also assures that it perceives odors, flavors, sounds and can even dream.
A study conducted by V.J. Collins and S.R. Zielineski reached the conclusion that even a two-month fetus reacts to stimulus, evidenced by its changing brainwaves.
Many doctors who conducted abortions have abandoned this practice after the fetus that was being aborted open its mouth in what's known as the ``silent scream.''
An academic, J. Noon says: ``In any abortive method, the fetus will die after a lot of agony. Within his almost non-existent cognitive capacities, it realizes how its body is being disintegrated and how its vital capacities come to an end.''
The cause resides on how the center for the pain (thalamus) already works around the eighth or 10th week. The skin's sensorial receivers also start working around the ninth week.
These two facts can be found on the study: ``Scientific evidences of the pain the fetus suffers when being deliberately aborted.''
Maria Ferraz Barcelona, Spain fermar42@gmail.com