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The UK Government gave much thought during this week to the question of abortion.

Their deliberations resulted in the law permitting abortions up until the 24th week. ( my personal view is that abortions should be available and legal but not that late in the pregnancy except on the advice of a medical doctor ) Does it require that amount of time to consider abortion in a normal pregnancy. Say, 4 weeks to confirm, 4 weeks to consider and discuss, 4 weeks to arrange the termination, total 12 weeks.

Why 24 weeks? Why not, say, 12 weeks?

I was watching a BBc documentary about cold fusion.Here is the link for the video.I posted it in my second blog.
The BBC people refused to accept that this scientist created nuclear fusion because they could not detect any neutrons at the exact moment when the photon of energy was detected.
My question is,do the neutrons travel at the speed of light?If not,how can the photons which are traveling at the speed of light and the neutrons can be detected at the exact same moment?