It appears that women were often fraudulently or erroneously found to be quick with child.
2.
This section made no distinction between women who were quick with child and those who were not.
3.
The law was amended in 1837-the latter removed the distinction between women who were quick with child ( late pregnancy ) and those who were not.
4.
However, the women escaped the noose when they revealed they were both " quick with child " ( known as " pleading the belly " ), so they received a temporary stay of execution.
5.
All swore that she was not " quick with child . " When Spooner and her confessor, the Rev . Thaddeus Maccarty, protested the report, four of the examiners joined by another midwife and Spooner's brother-in-law, Dr . John Green, conducted a second examination and supported the claim of pregnancy.
6.
They returned a verdict that Webster was not " quick with child ", though this did not necessarily mean that she was not pregnant a distinction that led the president of the Obstetrical Society of London to protest at the use of " the obsolete medical assumption that the unborn child is not alive until the so-called'quickening . '"
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