The law of infanticide: : a plea for its revision. /
Glaister, John1856-1932.
[Edinburgh] : Printed by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh.,
MDCCCXCV. [1895]
Reprinted from the Edinburgh Medical Journal for July 1895.--title page.
Offprint of an article in the Edinburgh Medical Journal where the author looks at the history of laws on abortion in Britain and argues against the current anomalies in the law between England, and Scotland, for penalties for causing still birth (abortion). Whereas in England procuring an abortion was now punishable with penal servitude for life, in Scotland the situation was not so clear cut, and led to the acquittal of people tried for infanticide. Glaister wanted to see the "illogical and inconclusive" law in Scotland reformed.
Abortion
Children
Scotland Edinburgh.