Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-05-10
aTbe w;lnl killing Of a human

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being at any stage of its existence, ; )
murder" 1t is quenching immor tal /
existence,-it is destroying what in q
few months or weeks, would bear
Gods image, and if any one thinks
she can do it without the guilt of muir
der, she is greatly mistaken. The
very remembrance Of this guilt has
often upset the reason, and by remorse
turned the doer into madness. q
Very false notions prevail on this
subject 1t is though. and said. to be
safe to the m.Cther Anything but
that. The shattered constitutions, the
pale fees, the feebleness of future life,
rot unfrequently tumors and internal
diseases, prostration of the vital pow
ers, remorse, shame, and sometimes
madness, tell the fearful results
God requireth that which is past,
and never more surely than in this
, case.
/. 1t is pleaded that the health OF the
= mother requires this. Nonsense. Ii
. she is too feeble to be mother, let
!. her not marry; but let her not dis
p honor and profane the holy name OF
wife by Sinking her responsibilities.
But as a matter Of fact, the fairest
healthiest, happiest, most respected
f and most useful women that have ev'
Y er lived, have been the mothers of
e large families. 1t is the law of ma
/. ture. Let my reader look around or
/ the families of his acquaintance anC
see if it be not so. The Bible every
V where holds up the thought that &
V great family is a special blessing
And if there be a beautiful sight il
n the world, it is the true mother sur
G rounded by large family of children
J. 1t is thought that the parents who
$ have small family, have healthier
+ children. | more than doubt it.
! have no belief in it. And if it were
@ so, it is from these delicate organiza
d tons that the writers, the poets, tht
/ inventors, the geniuses Of the genera
IS ton often comes. We cannot afforC
!, to lose them. The woman who, a
d this day. feels that to be a mother oil
e living children lis the first, highest
N and in earlier times, almost universe
g. lot, is worthy of all admiration ant
praise; and the women who, to say,
N herself from Inconvenience or pain
0. or to be able to keep along with tn,
{. giddy fashionable ones, will deliber
" ately destroy the child, which in
v few months would be dearer than he
i. own life, deserves execration. How
IF can it be that she will murder unborn
: what if born, if taken from her b,
IS death, she would mourn with the sor
D. row of Rachel?
is AS to danger--TaGdieu report
y that gin thirty-four cases of crimina
!" abortion. where their history wa
G. known, twenty-five were followed as
D consequence, by death, and lively,
y were not. In fifteen cases necessari
e ly induced by physicians, not one wa
d fatal"
n Is it not shame to womanhooC
T. that physicians have to testify tina
II they are appealed to almost constant
u Iy by married women, to aid them t.
a abortionate, and that in proportion t.
q numbers who thus appeal, and whose
2 circumstances are alike, married wo
men vastly predominant over the un
q married!
= The practice is direct war agains
human society, the best good ofcoun
:, try, against the family order, agains
| the health, the peace, the conscience
Il and the moral well-being of the moth
> er, and against child which would
Il otherwise have an immortal existence