Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1872-12-07
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placed on the same footing with other
bomicides To administer poison or use
other means to procure miscarriage is
also. under the same statute, a capital
felony. That such enactments should
ever have become English law, clearly |
proves the moral adherence which, in an
earlier and healthier state of society,
attached to infanticide, whether Of the
child already born, CT of the f@tus in
utero. 1t is one of the darkest signs of
our civilization that in fanticide is be-
coming one of our respectable crimes.
A clear retaliation of the facts about this |
matter would be appalling to al! minds
intelligent enough to revolt at their in
trinsic criminality and their evil por-
tents.
It is about time for some one to speak
out with considerable plainness on this
subject. Whatever infringement on del.
icacy NAV be involved, honest Saxon
English is good thing in the right place.
If the pulpit cannot come any nearer 1t
than to dsplore heather infanticide in
Pekin, and if the doctors can only whisp-
er about it among themselves, it becomes
the press to enter the missionary lists
and proclaim it from the house-tops,
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territorial miscarriage is infanticide. The
latest researches in biology affirm that
the evolution Of human life begins at the
moment of conception. The command
Thou shalt not kill, - reaches back to
that. Why not? Life is life, whenever it
begins, and the voluntary and intention
al taking of human life, wherever it OK
lists, is homicide.
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moral foundations, and it is high time
that its good, old-fashioned morality
should be revived, and that our civiliza-
ton should get back nearer to that
original command, ''Be fruitful and
multiply. and replenish the earth. The
divine blessing went with that command,
and it departs with its transgressions.
What is to become of our old Puritan
New England stock that We SO laud and
magnify? Where are the prolific
mothers land they were more blooming,
healthier and stronger than the women
nowdays), where are their large families
of century ago? They are dwindling
out and the reasons ought to be shame
and will be a curse. Let it not be, how
ever, the curse of ignorance. Let us not
invoke it blindly.
The vital interests of society and of
posterity demand that such men as Dr..
Storer of Cambridge shall clearly sound
the warnings that are needed. When,
in November, 1855, DR.. Storer, in his
chair as professor of obstetrics and med
ical jurisprudence, delivered the intro
ductory lecture to the medical class il
Harvard University, entitled Two fre
quent causes Of uterine Diseases" al
though it was printed, and to some ex
tent given to the public, yet portion o
it was suppressed at the request of
member of the college faculty, who dep
recated its publication as injudicious
But the suppressed portion has been re
Gently published, at the earnest solicita
ton Of DR.. Storer's friends who hear
the original lecture, and deemed it YER
timely and needful. The substance of
should bs made more widely public, an
it amounts to this: The 1.-TWO frequen
causes Of uterine disease to which Dl
5. refers are, first, the destruction of tn
fgtus in utero, in order to avoid the pair
anxiety, confinement, extra trouble an
expense incident to maternity; an
second, the serious means adopted
prevent conception, for the same reasons
DIR. Storer very ably discusses these 9
prominent and potent causes OF thos
distressing, enfeebling female disease
which are daily becoming more frequen
and sadly impairing the comfort on
usefulness Of SO many women.
Aside from the moral and legal bea
inngs of the subject, to which DR.. Stor
al!udes, his statements are particular
valuable in M. dical point of view,
showing clearly and decsively the da,
gerous effects of producing abortion, al
the unnatural interference with the reg
lar physiological exercise of the 'uteril
functions. We can hardly suppose tn
the truth Of his conclusions will be di
puted, and if our reliable physician
who command the general confidenc
agree in such conclusions, they sure
owe it to the public veal to follow L
Storer's example in giving correct info
nation on such subjects; and they surel
Also, ought to; use their great person
influence, as they can easily and proper
40, to impress upon the minds OF t
large circle Of their female patients t
danger and the immortality of the higt
evil practices which have been referr