The law against abortion : its perniciousness demonstrated and its repeal demanded / by William J. Robinson.

  • Robinson, William J. (William Josephus), 1867-1936.
Date:
1933
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Credit: The law against abortion : its perniciousness demonstrated and its repeal demanded / by William J. Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    get out of a rut. People who never get their ideas shocked are apt to sink into a morass of indolence and sloth. Their brain cells get atrophied. So I need offer no apology for shocking my confreres as well as a section of the laity. And I express confidently the hope that just as thirty years after the commencement of my prevenception propaganda the law against pre- venception had become a dead letter, so in thirty years from now will the law against abortion be dead or moribund. It may not be taken off the statute books, but it surely will have fallen into innocuous desuetude. For I shall have no diffi¬ culty in demonstrating the perniciousness of the abortion law, •without any compensating fea¬ tures.^ And I have sufficient confidence in the intelligence of at least a portion of mankind to believe that, if you have a good valid cause and you can present its merits clearly, you will be successful in converting them to your point of view. I well remember my first approach to old Dr. Jacobi, with the timid attempt to convert him to the cause that was so dear to me—the cause of birth control by prevenception. And to show how muddled the ideas on this subject were at that