Quickening

For other uses, see Quickening (disambiguation).

In pregnancy terms, quickening is the moment in pregnancy when the mother starts to feel the fetus's movement in the uterus. It was believed in ancient philosophy (an idea that was later adopted by some religions and legal theories) that the quickening marked the moment that a soul entered the fetus, termed ensoulment.

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