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a husband's cruelty and unwillingness for her to 

 bear children; how she had destroyed six unwel- 

 come children and had repeatedly attempted the 

 destruction of this one but failed, only to realize 

 when too late that she was not only a murderess, 

 but also the mother of a child with homicidal 

 tendencies implanted in his nature by her own un- 

 natural desires. 



No tongue can describe nor pen portray the 

 anguish of that poor soul awakened to the real- 

 ization of her crime. Hundreds must some day 

 suffer from a like awakening. Were it not ^ 1 " 

 the awful results and the frequency of such crimes Awakening, 

 it would perhaps be kinder to leave them ignor- 

 ant of their criminal responsibility, but when 

 thousands are being unfortunately born under 

 these morbid conditions and tens of thousands 

 of innocent babes are being murdered, it is nec- 

 essary to reveal the fact and to uncover the sin. 



Several pages could be filled with the citation 

 of personal observations like the foregoing, while 

 a volume might easily be compiled from the ob- j 

 servations of others and the testimony gathered 

 from physicians, but these will suffice. When 

 we consider the frequency of abortion and at- 

 temped abortion, it is easy to understand why 

 so many are born with criminal tendencies. 



The number of prenatal murders in Europe 

 and America is something appalling. As a crime 

 it far exceeds all others, and, what is worse, it has 

 increased more rapidly during the last 25 years . 

 than any other class of crime. If we can trust 

 the testimony of the best physicians of the coun- 

 try, the practice of destroying the unwelcome life 



