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''Any statistics attainable are very incomplete. 

 False certificates are daily given by attending physi- 

 cians. Men, if they are only rich enough, die of 'con- 

 gestion of the brain,' not 'delirium tremens;' and 

 women, similarly situated, do not die from the ef- 

 fects of abortion, but of 'inflammation of the bowels,' 

 etc." 



"Infanticide, as it is generally considered (destroy- 

 ing a child after quickening), is of very rare occur- 

 rence in New York; whereas abortions (destroying the 

 embryo before quickening) are of daily habit in the 

 families of the best informed and most religious; 

 among those abounding in wealth, as well as among 

 the poor and needy. " * 



"Perhaps only medical men will credit the asser- 

 tion that the frequency of this form of destroying 

 human life exceeds all others by at least fifty per cent, 

 and that not more than one in a thousand of the guilty 

 parties receive any punishment by the hand of civil 

 law. But there is a surer mode of punishment for the 

 guilty mother in the self-executing laws of nature." t 



' ' From a very large verbal and written correspond- 

 ence in this and other States, I am satisfied that we 

 have become a nation of murderers." X 



Said a distinguished clergyman of Brooklyn in a 

 sermon, "Why send missionaries to India when child- 

 murder is here of daily, almost hourly, occurrence; 

 aye, when the hand that puts money into the contribu- 

 tion-box to-day, yesterday, or a month ago did, or 

 to-morrow will, murder her own unborn offspring? 



"The Hindoo mother, when she abandons her babe 

 upon the sacred Ganges, is, contrary to her heart, 

 obeying a supposed religious law, and you desire to 

 convert her to your own worship of the Moloch of 



* Gardner. t Black. $Reamy. 



