Category: History - American
“And let the legislator and moralist look to it; for as sure as there is in any nation a hidden tampering with infant life, whether frequent or occasional, systematic or accidental, so sure will the chastisement of the Almighty fall on such a nation.”—GRANVILLE, _on Sudden Dea...
Moreover, it is allowed by Mill and by Malthus himself,[49] that so much of the decrease as cannot thus be explained, must be attributed to influences generally prevalent in Eur...
10. Part 10The distinction alluded to with regard to quickening, is allowed by an acknowledged legal authority[221] to be at open variance not only with medical experience, but with all ot...
4. Part 4“If the opinion were once generally established among the laboring class, that their welfare required a due regulation of the numbers of their families, only those would exempt...
5. Part 5It is by no means an easy thing in all cases to obtain evidence that an abortion has occurred; still more difficult, that it has been intentionally induced. As most laws read, i...
9. Part 9“Every woman who shall solicit of any person any medicine, drug, or substance, or thing whatever, and shall take the same, or shall submit to any operation, or other means whate...
12. Part 12[94] Since our last article, the report of the Committee appointed in 1858 to investigate the Health Department of the City of New York has appeared, and we find that our statem...
11. Part 11But it is asked, is our silence wrong? Is there not danger otherwise of increasing the crime? These are the questions not of wisdom, or prudence, or philanthropy, but of an arra...
1. Part 1“And let the legislator and moralist look to it; for as sure as there is in any nation a hidden tampering with infant life, whether frequent or occasional, systematic or acciden...
6. Part 6In answer to the second plea, the importance of several points must be borne in mind. It has been well put by Tardieu that it is wrong to commence, as advised by most authoritie...
7. Part 7Craniotomy, when absolutely indicated at the close of pregnancy, must be for one of two reasons: that the fœtus cannot pass through the pelvis at the full time alive, though it...
8. Part 8Again, it is undoubtedly the case that in all cases of maternal death during pregnancy, where the fœtus has arrived at the period of viability, its immediate extraction by the C...
2. Part 2Statistics in this country are as yet so imperfect, that we are necessitated to a process of deduction. If it can be shown that a state of things prevails elsewhere to a certain...
13. Part 13[275] “_Resolved_, That while physicians have long been united in condemning the procuring of abortion, at every period of gestation, except as necessary for preserving the life...