CarsomyrPlusSix
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This is before microscopy and cell theory, let alone ultrasound.NFBW: In the British colonies when America was being founded, abortions were legal if they were performed prior to quickening which was somewhere between 16 to 24 weeks.
They didn’t know when life begins then. Quickening was the first physical manifestation they could note.
In science and medicine, we no longer even consider quickening as a positive sign of pregnancy, just a presumptive one. It is known that life begins at fertilization.