Yeah, dunno what all his momma birthed, but at least one sure as hell ain’t human.
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I posted this in another thread. I have a feeling that it will come in handy.
In the 1700s and early 1800s, conception was considered a disturbance of a woman’s natural balance. Methods of “removing a blockage” or “restoring the menses” were sometimes necessary to reestablish the body’s balance, even if they induced a miscarriage. Abortions that occurred before quickening, which was understood as the time when a pregnant woman could feel the foetus move (usually around the fourth month), were legally and morally acceptable. Quickening was an indicator based on women’s perceptions, not a medical diagnosis. But in the absence of a scientific pregnancy test, it was recognised as the threshold of human development. Before quickening, no one, not even the Catholic church, believed that a human life existed, notes Leslie J Reagan in her 1996 book, When Abortion Was a Crime.
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