§ Lord Braine of Wheatleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
What evidence they have that an unborn child is capable of feeling pain and whether they will place in the Library of the House any such evidence.
§ Baroness CumberlegeA report on the subject of sensory development in the human fetus was prepared for the Department in 1988 by Dr. Maria Fitzgerald. A copy is available in the Library.