524 PLAIN FACTS FOR OLD AND YOUNG 



Accidental Pregnancies.— " These accidental 

 pregnancies are the great immediate cause of the enor- 

 mously common crime of abortion, concerning which 

 the morals of the people are amazingly blunted. The 

 extent of the practice may be roughly estimated by the 

 number of standing advertisements in the family news- 

 papers, in which feticide is warranted safe and secret. 

 It is not the poor only who take advantage of such 

 nefarious opportunities; but the rich shamelessly pat- 

 ronize these professional and cowardly murderers of 

 defenseless infancy. Madame Restell, who died by her 

 own hand in New York, left a fortune of a million 

 dollars, which she had accumulated by producing 

 abortions." 



A husband who has not sunk in his carnality too 

 far below the brute creation, will certainly pause a 

 moment, in the face of such terrible facts, before he 

 continues his sensual, selfish, murderous course. 



The following remarks which our own professional 

 experience has several times confirmed, reveal a still 

 more heinous violation of nature 's laws : 



''To many it may seem that it is unnecessary to 

 caution against contracting relationships at the period 

 of the monthly flow, thinking that the instinctive laws 

 of cleanliness and delicacy were sufficient to refrain 

 the indulgence of the appetites ; but they are little cog- 

 nizant of the true condition of things in this world. 

 Often have I had husbands inform me that they had 

 not missed having sexual relations with their wives 

 once or more times a day for several years ; and scores 

 of women with delicate frames and broken-down health 

 have revealed to me similar facts, and T have been 

 compelled to make personal appeals to the husbands. ' ' * 



It seems scarcely possible that such enormity could 



* Gardner. 



