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Quickening
Moment in pregnancy when the mother starts to feel movement in the uterus
Quickening
In pregnancy terms, quickening is the moment in pregnancy when the mother starts to feel the fetus's movement in her uterus. It was believed in Aristotelian and Thomistic tradition that the quickening was associated with the moment that a soul entered the fetus, termed ensoulment, and that this took place at approximately the 40th day in males and the 80th day in females. Many legal and cultural traditions treated quickening, either as felt by the mother or inferred by the duration of the pregnancy, as a key boundary in the status of the fetus.
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