The weekly tribune., 1893-05-26
SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS
"A Crime Against Nature Too Common
Everywhere and Now Pre-
valcnt Here.
How Is It That Fiends IMcarnate Are
Patronized BY Respectable
People.

AGAIN anu HBdln WltHlIl tue last lew
Hmonths rumois have been circulated to
the effect that cases of criminal NAL
practice are occurring here, ana inquiry
y has elected the fact that this crime is
Fnot only practiced to conceal crime but
also by supposedly respectable women.
n A TRIBUNE reporter who has been in
vestigating the matter finds that mar
( red women who are not supposed to
have anything to conceal have been
Sknown quite recently to make direct APP
n splication to physicians here for the un-
lawful operation to destroy their unborn
\ Boffspring. This was one of the leading
crimes of Sodom and Gomorrah, and it
is disheartening to find it prevalent in a
4 young community like this.
"The great need of France said Ma
4 poleon, sis mothers" This eloquent
cynicism is applicable to many cities of
the new world, as well. The average
Z woman of society in these times is averse
\ to undergoing the inconvenience Of
4 child bearing or suffer the deprivation
h of social privileges incident to pregnan-
cy. Daily papers teen with Haunting
advertisements of quacks and charlatans
offering speedy relief, and these have
much to do with tempting the mothers
. of civilization to purchase immunity
through the aid Of the abortionst.
SpaciOus and sOphistical aroumpnts
are multiplied to quiet the parental con-
sc;ance vot the fact remains fullv 90.
tablished. both by scientific research and
legal enactment, that the doing or pro-
CURING of miscarriare unon a nregnant
woman is murder.
Thc word has dreadful sound and
4 causes a shudder Nevertheless such a
6aed can only he characterized as the
most cowardly of ali forms Of crime in
that tbe vonng life ia taken evon before
( If is conscious of eyistence, Freouentlv
the life of the unnatural mother ones out
with that of her unborn babe. for a
learned nhvsician knows the dancers to
a woman's life TO be ,reater in prema,
tura deliverv sunerindnced nv artificial
means than when at full term. In the
hands," the ionoran. nractitioner. for if
th;s nefarious business. the veal, woman
all too frequently paws the penalty of
folly with her life. or else becomes an in
valid n is a fact that MANY recorded
certi6cates of death bearing hiph. sound
ing causes. too often attested by rep
ufable MUSICIAN, are in reality technical
terms sipnifyinp that the patient had
died from the effects of an abortion,
This sacrificing at the shrine of Moloch
is not confined to any particular branch
or school of medicine. The love of
money conduces to its practice by many
heartiess. constituencies professional
men and women.
This subject is among those usually
avoided by the public prints; nor is it al
together because of mawkish sentiment.
but from motives of delicacy. This yery
silence may be chargeable with much Of
the increase of this particular form of
crime. Did those seeking relief but
realize the enormity of their offense, few
would consent to it. Hence. il behooves
the press of the land to boldly grasp the
subject and by agitation and education.
lessen the foul evil. Let it be ayerred