The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-04-18

moss women, who finding themselves
awfully mothers. prefer to dcvastate Il
With poison or with steel theifwombs
.ather than bear the disco,nforts Mt
tachcd to the privilege Of maternity, p
rather than forsgo the gaicties Of u
baFa, slarties and plays, or
! summers trips and amnscments.'r
70 all i say DO manus, a,aa sa4
It is the testimony, too. of those
who know, that in proportion s peo-
pie become indolent or fashionable
Che tempt atio,. to produce abortion
is increased that in many circles it
is absolutely a matter OF boastingand
vanity, to tell the, number of times
they and their friends have been !,
guilt, ofthe deed. rs, Isl, (; eyIse i.
The causes Of this child murder are !
to be found, often, in ignorance Gifts
guilt--the case with which it is done
and concealed 1.-The unwiAingness to
criminate ones self-the loss of char
acter-the reign ofextravagance and
fashion, and the fear o. child-bed. 5e
AS to guilt, want all to know
that in. the sight Of God, it s willfui
murder. oThe willfnl killing Of al
human being at any stage of it's exis-
tence, is murder" 1t is quenching
immortal 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 murder, she is greatly mis-
tasen. The very remembrance OF
this guilt has often upset the reason,
and, bp remorse, turned the doer in
/ to Madness, .sas ft; ....s. ( ~
/ Very false notions prevail on this
! subject. 1t is thought and said to
be safe TO the mother. Anything
but that. The shattered constitu-
Itions, the pale faces, the feebleness
of future life, not unfrequently tu-
lmors and internal diseases. prostra.
ton of vital powers, remorse, shame,
land sometimes madness, tell the fear
full results. "God requireth that
) which is past" and never more sure
" than in this case. HI
4 It is pleaded that the health Of the
j mother requires this. Nonsense. II
, she is too feeble to be q mother, let
her not marry; but let her not dis.
honor and profane the holy name Of
ties. But az matter Of fact, thu
fairest, healthies happiest, most re
! spected, and most useful women thai
: lave ever lived have been the moth
y ers Of large families. 1t is the law
.fof nature. Let my reader look
; around on the families of his acquain
, tances and see if it be not so. The
! Bible everywhere holds up the tho,
that a great family is a special bless
D ing. Aud ii there be a beautiful
4 sight in the world, tits the tru,
: mother surrounded by large family
of childron.U I'd
!, 1t is thought that tho parents wht
, have small family have healthier
children. ! more than doubt it.
, have no belief in it. And were it 50
8 it is from those. delicate organiza
: tons that the writer's, the poets, tn,
: inventors, the geniuses of the gener
t alton often comes. We. cannot at
4 ford to lose them. The women who
}. at this day feels that to be the moth
!, or Of living. children lis the first
highest, and in earlier times, almos
! universal lot,p is worthy ofall admir-
7 alton and praise; and the womer
. who, to save herself from inconveni
J ence or pain, or to be able to kcel
: along nth tho giddy fashionable
{. ones, will deliberately destroy tn,
y child which, in a few months, woult
. be dearer than her own life, deserves
: execration. How can it be that sh,
7 will murder unborn, what ifDorn
and if taken form her by death, sh,
would mourn with the sorrow q
3 Rachel2. s,,s IS. 2 4
As to Danger, Tandieureports tha
: sin thirty-four cases ofcriminal abor
r ton, where their history was known
> TWENTY-FIVE were followed, as a con
sequence, by death, and, twelve were
not. In fifteen cases necessarily in
: duced By lhyclsns, not Que wasfa
! tul." 81 .-. $780,.
Is II not u shame to womanhooC
that physicians have, to testify thai
,, that they areappeaied to almost con
|, ,s;antsy by married women, 10 aid
/ thcm to atortinate, and that in pro
|, portion To numbers who thus appeal
and whose circumstances are alike
married women vastly predominant
over the unmarried! 3d
The practice is q direct war against
human society, the best good Of
country, against the family order
against the health, the peace, the
concience, and the moral well.being
Of the mother, and against q child
(which would otherwise have an i'm
mortal existence. 1523a
Since An@sthcsia is able to carry
Through childbirth, divesting it Of
f most Gifts horrors, and every way
: safe, and which 1 would earnestly
recommend to be used, there is hard,
ly an excuse loft. grss 5s9es. ss
r. | appeal to our New England
womcn--the daughters of ancestry
i who never were spotted by tho blood
| ofinnocents, who never stifed the
natural longings of q mothers heart,
and never quenched life immortal for
the sake of ease or fashion, and ask
them if it is SO that they are SO de-
! generated that they cannot meet the
I hottest position and duties ever i'm
Iposod on women?
1 Ifit bo said that ! have in any
measure exaggerated the evil and
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