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THE ABNORMAL MAN. 



Statistics on 

 Infanticide 



Dr. Chandler on 



Prenatal 



Mortality. 



Number of Pre- 

 natal Murders. 



is well nigh universal. Statistics of abortion, 

 which probably do not include over one-half of 

 the actual number of cases, indicate that fully 

 one -third as many children are murdered before 

 birth as are born. 



A recent report of the special committee on 

 criminal abortion in Michigan contains this state- 

 ment : "To so great an extent is abortion prac- 

 ticed by American Protestant women that by a 

 calculation of one of the committee based upon 

 correspondence with nearly one hundred physi- 

 cians, there comes to the knowledge of the phy- 

 sicians 17 abortions to every 100 pregnancies. 

 To these the committee believe may be added as 

 many more that never come to the physician's 

 knowledge, making 38 per cent, or one-third of 

 all cases ending in miscarriage. The number of 

 women that die from its immediate effects are 

 not less than 6,000 per year." 



Dr. W. A. Chandler, a physician of over thirty 

 years' practice, says he believes that "more than 

 one-half of the human race die before birth and 

 three- fourths of these are abortions by intent." 

 Other physicians of wide experience have offered 

 similar estimates, while many declare that "not 

 more than one conception in three is allowed to 

 come to a natural birth." 



Reckoning from the most conservative opin- 

 ions there is one intentional abortion for every 

 two natural births, and estimating that there are 

 1,500,000 natural births per annum, this would 

 indicate that there are 500,000 prenatal murders 

 in the United States every year, or 1,393 P er day. 



Many hold that the destruction of the embryo 



