D.--Do these same white-walled sepulchres of hell know
that they are committing the damning sin of Herod in the slaughter of the
innocents, and are accessories before the fact to the crime of murder? Do
women in all circles of society, when practicing these terrible crimes
realize the real danger? Do they understand that it is undermining their
health, and their constitution, and that their destiny, if persisted in, is
a premature grave just as sure as the sun rises in the heavens? Let all
beware, and let the first and only purpose be, to live a life guiltless
before God and man.

11. THE CRIME OF ABORTION.--From the moment of conception a new life
commences; a new individual exists; another child is added to the family.
The mother who deliberately sets about to destroy this life, either by want
of care, or by taking drugs, or using instruments, commits as great a
crime, and is just as guilty as if she strangled her new-born infant or as
if she snatched from her own breast her six months' darling and dashed out
its brains against the wall. Its blood is upon her head, and as sure as
there is a God and a judgment, that blood will be required of her. The
crime she commits is murder, child murder--the slaughter of a speechless,
helpless being, whom it is her duty, beyond all things else, to cherish and
preserve.

12. DANGEROUS DISEASES.--We appeal to all such with earnest and with
threatening words. If they have no feeling for the fruit of their womb, if
maternal sentiment is so callous in their breasts, let them know that such
produced abortions are the constant cause of violent and dangerous womb
diseases, and frequently of early death; that they bring on mental
weakness, and often insanity; that they are the most certain means to
destroy domestic happiness which can be adopted. Better, far better, to
bear a child every year for twenty years than to resort to such a wicked
and injurious step; better to die, if need be, in the pangs of child-birth,
than to live with such a weight of sin on the conscience.

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The Unwelcome Child.[2]

1. TOO OFTEN THE HUSBAND thinks only of his personal gratification; he
insists upon what he calls his rights (?); forces on his wife an _unwelcome
child_, and thereby often alienates her affections, if he does not drive
her to abortion.

Dr Stockham reports the following case: "A woman once consulted me who was
the mother of five children