Foetal Pain - Latest Report From The Department Of Health
EDM number 1380 in 1994-95, proposed by David Alton on 11/07/1995.
That this House welcomes the publication of Foetal Pain: An Update of Current Scientific Knowledge by Dr Maria Fitzgerald; notes the evidence summarised by the report that foetuses feel pain and that they may lack inhibitors and pain thresholds present in children and adults; agrees with Dr Fitzgerald's conclusion 'that the foetal nervous system mounts clear protective responses to tissue injury and this cannot be ignored'; welcomes her recommendation that 'the effects of trauma of any kind to the developing nervous system should be minimised as far as possible by whatever means are available'; and calls on the Department of Health to disseminate this information to medical staff and mothers and come forward with proposals for avoiding pain in pre-term foetal surgery and abortion.
This motion has been signed by a total of 13 MPs.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
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David Alton | 11/07/1995 | Liverpool Mossley Hill | Proposed | |
Dale Campbell-Savours | 11/07/1995 | Workington | Signed | |
Michael Alison | 11/07/1995 | Selby | Signed | |
Robert Parry | 12/07/1995 | Liverpool, Riverside | Signed | |
John Cummings | 12/07/1995 | Easington | Signed | |
Jack Thompson | 12/07/1995 | Wansbeck | Signed | |
Ann Winterton | 13/07/1995 | Congleton | Signed | |
Martin Smyth | 14/07/1995 | Belfast South | Signed | |
Jim Cunningham | 17/07/1995 | Coventry South East | Signed | |
Keith Vaz | 18/07/1995 | Leicester East | Signed | |
Bill Cash | 16/10/1995 | Stafford | Signed | |
Nigel Jones | 25/10/1995 | Cheltenham | Signed | |
Eddie McGrady | 30/10/1995 | South Down | Signed |
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