Why not? a book for every woman / By Horatio Robinson Storer.

  • Storer, Horatio Robinson, 1830-1922.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Why not? a book for every woman / By Horatio Robinson Storer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    through ignorance and a misapprehension of their own physical condition, and their own physical dangers, their own physical welfare. Physicians have now arrived at the unanimous opinion, that the foetus in utero is alive from the very moment of conception. To extinguish the first spark of life is a crime of the same nature, both against our Maker and society, as to destroy an infant, a child, or a man. 1 More than two hundred years ago the same idea was as vigorously as quaintly expressed: It is a thing deserving all hate and detestation that a man in his very originall, whiles he is framed, whiles he is enlived, should be put to death under the very hands and in the shop of nature. 2 The law, whose judgments are arrived at so deliberately, and usually so safely, has come to the same conclusion, and though in some of its decisions it has lost sight of this fundamental 1 Percival: Medical Ethics, p. 79. 2 Man Transformed, Oxford, 1653.