550 PLAIN FACTS FOR OLD AND YOUNG 



INFANTICIDE AND ABORTION 



Few but medical men are aware of the enormous 

 proportions wliicli have been assumed by these terrible 

 crimes during the present century. That they are 

 increasing with fearful rapidity, and have really 

 reached such a magnitude as to seriously affect the 

 growth of civilized nations, and to threaten their very 

 existence, has become a patent fact to observing physi- 

 cians. The crime itself differs little in reality from 

 that considered under the heading, ''Prevention of 

 Conception." It is, in fact, the same crime postponed 

 till a later period. 



We quote the following eloquent words on this 

 subject : 



''Of all the sins, physical and moral, against man 

 and God, I know of none so utterly to be condemned 

 as the very common one of the destruction of the child 

 while yet in the womb of the mother. So utterly re- 

 pugnant is it that I can scarcely express the loathing 

 with which I approach the subject!— murder in cold 

 blood, without cause, of an unknown child, one's near- 

 est relative; in fact, part of one's very being, actually 

 having, not only one's own blood in its being, but that 

 blood momentarily interchanging! Good God! Does 

 it seem possible that such depravity can exist in a 

 parent's breast— in a mother's heart? 



'"Tis for no wrong that it has committed that its 

 sweet life is so cruelly taken away. Its coming is no 

 disgrace; its creation was not in sin, but— its mother 

 'don't want to be bothered by any more brats; can 

 hardly take care of what she had got; is going to 

 Europe in the spring.' 



