False modesty, that protects vice by ignorance / by E.B. Lowry.

  • Lowry, E. B. (Edith Belle), 1878-1945.
Date:
1912
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Credit: False modesty, that protects vice by ignorance / by E.B. Lowry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a girl of fourteen, wearing her dresses to her shoe tops and her hair in curls. That girl was to become a mother in a few weeks. In this same home were several girls not much older. Last fall I wrote an article on this sub- ject for one of the women’s magazines. That article brought me a number of let- ters with rural delivery postmarks asking where the writer, in every case a young girl, could find such a home. But the girls who reach these homes are only a very small percentage of the ones who have gotten into trouble. By far the greater number do not let matters take their natural course. They have abortions per- formed. One who has not investigated could hardly conceive of the extent of this practice. I would venture to say that in Chicago alone there is at least one abortion performed every hour. Of course, this is a criminal offense, but it is done nevertheless. Another and perhaps the most far- reaching result of immoral practices is the