HL Deb 04 May 1995 vol 563 cc121-2WA
Lord Braine of Wheatley

asked 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 Cumberlege

A 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.