#fetal pain

[anamericangirl]

Up until the late 1980’s it was a commonly held belief in the medical community that babies could not feel pain. It was standard practice to perform procedures on infants without using anesthesia.

This was essentially because the professionals in the field and the studies done failed to understand pain responses in infants. But they weren’t aware they didn’t understand. They believed they were correct. Which is why several babies underwent surgical procedures with only muscle relaxants.

Some places had started using anesthesia on infants in the 70s but it was still standard practice not to use anesthesia on babies under 15 months old until 1987.

It was only recently discovered that babies can feel pain even though they were able to all along. Think of how many children were hurt because of that kind of ignorance.

So when people, even medical studies and doctors, say that babies in the womb don’t feel pain just know they don’t actually know that. They are basing that assumption on the currently held ideas about the sensation of pain. They aren’t basing it on actual knowledge on what children in the womb can perceive. There is still a lot we don’t know regarding consciousness and sensory perception in the womb.

And they could be wrong. 36 years ago they thought babies couldn’t feel pain even after being born and they were wrong. But they were convinced they were right. They didn’t know everything then and they don’t know everything now. Some recent research has even suggested that babies in the womb might be able to feel pain as early as the first trimester.

This is just to caution people against accepting and repeating claims like “fetuses can’t feel pain” uncritically when we don’t actually know that for a fact. Our understanding of pain and fetal development is something we are continuing to learn about so if you’re among the people who go around claiming babies in the womb can’t feel pain you need to stop because you don’t actually know that. No one knows that. It’s the current assumption but that assumption could very easily be wrong.

Abortion, however, is wrong regardless of whether the baby can feel pain or not. I just think it’s important to remind people that doctors are not infallible. They make mistakes all the time. Big ones. They are wrong about a lot. Medical history is filled with standard medical practices that were absolutely insane and incredibly harmful to people. So just because we know more now doesn’t mean we know everything. And the medical field is still prone to error. No one actually knows what a child in the womb can feel so if you make a definitive statement about it you’re operating from blind faith in an assumption that may very well be 100% wrong. Just like it was up until 36 years ago.

#pro life #abortion #fetal pain

[fullystrangeking-blog]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/pregnancy-weeks-abortion-tissue

#abortion #fetal heartbeat #fetal #fetal personhood #fetal pain #six weeks #anti abortion #right to abortion #female health #female healthcare #pregnant #pregnancy #pregnancy care

[blorb-el]

fellas is it gay to orient the universe around your best friend. is it gay to take his suffering into yourself because you can’t bear to lose him. is it gay to save him even though you know he wouldn’t want that because for once in your god damn life you’re choosing to be selfish. is it gay to need him that much. is it gay to see how the stars reshape themselves into his form. is it gay to point out how he’s infinitely more than his worst enemy... is it gay for your love and respect for him to be what saves the fucking universe.................

#superbat #i bullied jan into reading emperor joker and im in the feels about it again #thinking about bruce curled up into fetal position teeth clenched SHAKING hahahhaa #thinking about how the end is either a sunset or a sunrise and clark forces it into being a sunrise....... #thinking about the loop of horror and pain clark goes through at the beginning... #i am lying down like a victorian #thinking about clark helplessly forced to listen to bruce being TORN APART AND EATEN ALIVE NOT TWO FEET AWAY FROM HIM.......

[tardxsblues]

Doctor Who | 8.12 Death in Heaven

#the thing about going through and giffing these scenes #is that i start to notice all the small itty bitty details i wouldn't have noticed otherwise #and let me tell you that clara's little lip wobble in this scene has me in the fetal position #and yes I did make a part 2 of the hug for pain #doctor who #dwedit #dwgifs #dw companions #twelve #twelfth doctor #clara oswald #twelveclara #whouffaldi #dws8 #episode: death in heaven #peter capaldi #jenna coleman #gif warning

[aceofwhump]

Mike Warren curled up in pain

Graceland 1x09, 1x10, 2x13, 3x01, 3x08

#whumpedit #whump #graceland #mike warren #aaron tveit #my gifs #mod post #1x09 #1x10 #2x13 #3x01 #3x08 #pain #curled up #fetal position #shot #gunshot #stabbed #recovery #on the ground #sick

[whumpypepsigal]

The Witcher Blood Origin s01e03: “We have to start it (the procedure) now or he won’t make it.”

#whumpedit #whump #thewitcheredit #thewitcherbloodoriginedit #the witcher blood origin #my gifs #fjall x eile #fjall stoneheart #eile #laurence o’fauarain #sophia brown #weak #pain #exhaustion #groaning #fetal position #hugging #cradled #support #comfort #painful transformation #transformation #magic #chefs kiss #the witcher blood origin spoilers

[random-fandom-whump]

Whumptober Day 20: It's Been a Long Day ↳ Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983)

#whumptober2022 #no.20 #it's been a long day #starwars #gifs #luke skywalker #torture whump #electrocuted #supine #fetal position #pain #crying out #begging #darth vader #palpatine #movies #1980s #iconic #mark hamill #flashing gifs

[mpreg-desires]

Labor pains 🥺

#mpreg #mpreg art #asher draws #mpreg belly #egg preg #ovulation #fetal movement #belly torture #labor pain #childbirth #fpreg #asher speaks

[crow-with-a-knife]

Ohhhh may some higher being help me. May they take mercy on my tortured soul. (thinking about The Parallels)

#caws of crow #thinking many thoughts about characters who only ever wanted someone to be proud of them but it chased them to crazed fury and madness #looking so specifically at azula (atla) touya todoroki (bnha) and tai lung (kung fu panda) #don’t get my started on the parallel of all three of them having blue fire #well tai lung only has once scene involving blue fire but STILL #you can’t tell me there isn’t something so inexplicably connected in their lines #“all i ever did i did to make you proud! tell me how proud you are shifu! #“look at me!” #and azulas pained wailing #laying fetal position on the floor clutching my heart #someday i might be capable of putting this all into cohesive words

[touchlikethesun]

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#perfect jan 1st plans #sobbing in the fetal position under the bed like a child #god today sucks #this is why i use escapism so much #i try not to for one single goddamn day and look where that got me #seriously considering disappearing #it’s been years of this #years of one crisis after another and nothing ever gets better #everyone says it gets better eventually but i’ve felt like this since i was 12 #over a decade of my life #struggling and wishing i was dead #and for what? i have nothing to show for it #no accomplishments barely any meaningful relationships no hobbies #just pain and pain and failure and embarrassment and pain #fucking hell #i’m so stupid i’m so worthless i’m so pathetic i can’t keep living with myself #vent

[sasuga-whump]

Whumptober 2022: "Fetal position"

Midas - ep 7

I have been rewatching this scene for literally years and now I finally decided to share it heheh

#whumptober2022 #no.20 #fetal position #midas #whump clip #screaming in pain #writhing in pain #crying out #groaning #whimpering #whump #whump blog #whump community #asian whump #korean drama #korean whump #kwhump #reluctant caretaker #it's been a long day #concern #medical whump #screaming #writhing #collapse #shaking and shivering #kdrama whump #whumpee #hiding an illness

[entryn17]

im never taking my stomach not hurting for granted ever again

#every hour or so i have to pause whatever im doing to lay in a fetal position from the pain

[twisted-desires]

Wanna write about bunnyboy whores

Also wanna write about submitting to general Lilia after he captures you

Also also wanna write about perv vampires + period kink stuff

#hhhhhh alas I cannot swallow my pain meds so i gotta wait until i can be out of the fetal position for nore than a few minutes

[aceofwhump]

Doctor Who ''The End of Time part 2''

#whumpedit #whump #doctor who #10th doctor #tenth doctor #david tennant #my gifs #mod post #pain #screaming #trapped #radiation poisoning #collapsing #fetal position #on the ground #hand in hair #hands #cuts #writhing

[whumpypepsigal]

The Witcher Blood Origin s01e03: “Even if you do survive the ritual... you'll probably lose who you are. Completely. Every nerve, every sinew will be brutally corrupted. The transformation will be long. Beyond painful.”

#whumpedit #whump #thewitcherbloodoriginedit #thewitcheredit #the witcher blood origin #my gifs #fjall stoneheart #laurence o’fauarain #transformation #painful transformation #weak #fetal position #pale #hand holding #support #magic #shaking #bones cracking #black veins #eyes #worried loved one #emotional whump #the witcher blood origin spoilers

[notbadforafailedvessel]

Deborah affected by Ava's words

"Every person in her life is on her payroll and would never be around her if their livelihoods didn’t depend on it. Myself included.” || “We’re good together. I don’t want to be here. I want to be wherever you are.”

Hacks S02E02 - Hacks S02E08

#hacksedit #hacks hbo #hbo hacks #jean smart #hd.gif #hdhacks.gif #my friend told me about this parallel and i HAD to do it because we love pain and suffering #the first time she's so hurt because she believed with Ava was different #yes she's on her payroll but she believed that Ava enjoyed their time together #(which she totally does but after those words...) #so now she's thinking she was so very wrong after inadvertently lower her walls with Ava #and the second time she's hurt again because she BELIEVES it #but she's not ready to accept what it means because #a) Ava does needs to grow on her own #b) so does Deb - her growing has no over and she's still not ready for more #is not* #*lies on the floor in fetal position* i can’t even #hacks (tv) #deborah vance