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prior to quickening is not murder. This is ab- 

 surd. If murder is the destruction of human life, j Abortion 

 then whoever destroys a human being from the 

 hour of its beginning is guilty of this crime. 



Mrs. Stockham in "Tokology," well says: 

 "When the female germ and male sperm unite, 

 then is the inception of a new life; all that goes 

 to make up a human being body, mind and spir- 

 it, must be contained in embryo within this min- Dr. Stockham on 

 ute organism. Life must be present from ^'Abortion. 

 very moment of conception. If there was not 

 life there could be no conception. At what other 

 period of a human being's existence, either pre- 

 natal or postnatal, could the union of soul and 

 body take place ? Is it not plain that the violent 

 or forcible deprivation of existence of this em- 

 bryo, the removal of it from the citadel of life, 

 is its premature death, and hence the act can 

 be denominated by no milder term than murder, 

 and whoever performs the act, or is accessory to 

 it, in the sight of God and human law is guilty 

 of the crime of all crimes." 



Is it any wonder that the Gospel of Jesus 



Christ fails to spiritualize a man or a woman _ 



Crime Inevitable* 

 whose conscience is calloused with this crime? 



Is it any wonder that the "still small voice" * 



loses its persuasive power in a soul that has been 

 deadened by murder? Is it any wonder that 

 children born of parents who have habitually mur- 

 dered their offspring should early manifest crim- 

 inal tendencies? Is it any wonder that homi- , 

 cide and suicide are rapidly on the increase when 

 thousands of parents are guilty of this crime? 



