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... generally defective, and proves an abortion without previous contemplation. Contemplation ...

— Pearls of Thought • Maturin M. Ballou

... makes it all the worse, in a way? It promises to bring on abortion. It encourages any fool girl who otherwise might be withheld from vice by fear of consequences. It puts a weapon of argument into the hands of every rake and ruiner; 'If you get into trouble, this stuff will fix you all right.' How many suicides do you suppose your 'Boon to Womanhood' ...

— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... dealt with, either from the moral or the scientific standpoint, unless its relation to the general phenomenon of female parasitism be fully recognised. It is the failure to do this which leaves so painful a sense of abortion on the mind, after listening to most modern utterances on the question, whether made from the emotional platform of the moral reformer, or the intellectual platform of the would-be scientist. We are left with a feeling that the matter has been handled ...

— Woman and Labour • Olive Schreiner

... may signify as well the murder of young children, as the procurement of abortion; both which crimes were severely punished by the ...

— The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus • Tacitus

... view which prevailed not only in classic antiquity, but even, under certain conditions, in Christian practice, until Canon law, asserting that the embryo had from the first an independent life, pronounced abortion under all circumstances a crime. Countess von Streitberg takes the standpoint that as the chief risks and responsibilities must necessarily rest upon the woman, it is for her to decide whether she will permit the embryo she bears to develop. ...

— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

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