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the debate over whether or not abortion should be illegal. Option Continues to Divide Americans Here are some pros Fetuses are incapable of feeling pain when most abortions are performed, according to a review by Britain's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Most neuroscientists believe that the cortex is necessary for pain perception. The cortex does not become functional until at least the 26th week of a fetus is development long after most abortions are performed. This finding was endorsed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which stated that there is no legitimate scientific information that supports the statement that a fetus experiences pain. A University of California at San Francisco study said fetuses probably can't feel pain until the 29th or 30th week of gestation. Abortions that laid into a pregnancy are extremely rare and are often restricted by state loss, according to Stewart Wg Derbyshire PhD senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham in the UK, Fetuses cannot be held to experience pain. Not only has the biological development not yet occurred to support pain experience, but the environment after birth so necessary to the development of pain experience is also yet to occur the flinching and other reactions scene in fetuses when they detect pain. Stimuli are mere reflexes, not an indication that the fetus is perceiving or feeling anything. Women who are denied abortions are more likely to become unemployed, to be on public welfare, to be below the poverty line and to become victims of domestic violence. A University of California at San Francisco study found that women who were turned away from abortion clinics because they had passed the gestational limit imposed by the clinic were three times more likely to be below the poverty level two years later than women who were able to obtain abortions. 76% of the turn aways ended up on unemployment benefits, compared with 44% of the women who had abortions. The same study found that women unable to obtain abortions were more likely to stay in a relationship with an abusive partner than women who had an abortion. And we're more than twice as likely to become victims of domestic violence