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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two the two non-Christian pps above posting about God breathing into Adam’s nostrils in the first book of the Bible and “quickening,” the religion I follow does not use either of those things to support abortion.

Aristotle believed that quickening took place at forty days for males and eighty days for females. (That’s factually incorrect and misogynistic, yikes! That’s not based on science.)

Contrary to popular belief, quickening is never cited as a standard for determining the onset of human life, or hominization. Instead, Aristotle’s “Experienced Midwife” is credited with the first discussion of quickening.

The point of quickening, as described by Aristotle, was the moment at which the life in the womb became human, as opposed to its previous vegetable and animal states.

Abortion at any stage, as well as infanticide, was widely accepted in Greek culture during and after Aristotle’s time. (Another yikes- big nope on infanticide, thankyouverymuch.)

Jewish, Tao, and Confucian faiths generally permit abortions (early, or pre-quickening, with later abortions requiring serious reasons); and Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Sikhism generally condemn abortion, especially after quickening.

Because of René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec’s stethoscope in 1816 and the use of ultrasound technology for prenatal care in 1956, quickening was gradually replaced by conception, viability, or birth as the moment of hominization, and therefore the beginning of legal protection.

I don’t know any Christian church that uses “quickening” as any measurement of pregnancy. There may be some that do, and that’s why I am asking pp to share their denomination.

Modern medical technology has replaced “quickening” for most people. [/quote]

What does science have to do with ensoulment? 
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