CHAPTER XII.

QUESTIONS CONCERNING OFFSPRING.

Natural for parents to desire offspring.--The prevalent unnatural desire to evade parenthood.--The crime of destroying unborn human life.--The law pronounces the crime murder.--The question of quickening.--Authorities quoted.--How the health and lives of mothers are sacrificed by abortion.--Character of "unwanted" children.--The desire to murder transmitted from mother to child.--The transmission of a predisposition to commit murder.--How the minds of young girls are prepared for child-murder.--Defective instruction and consequent ignorance.--How husbands drive wives to commit this great crime.--Awful testimony of wives.--The largest reproduction possible not intended.--Quantity as well as quality.--Culpable and criminal limitation of offspring.--Times when it is wrong to beget children.--Difficulties may be removed and fitness acquired.--How may the birth rate be rightly regulated?--What physicians say.--Unsafe, unsatisfactory and ruinous methods resorted to.--The Scriptural provision.--Benefits and dangers of "Prepared Parenthood."--Mental state at time of conjunction.--Mental and physical state of mother during gestation.--Signs of fruitful conjunction, 162