During the mediaeval ages abortions were punishable by severe penalties, in some instances even by capital punishment, and a free woman who had practiced it became a serf.
During recent years several cases of criminal abortions created a sensation, because distinguished physicians and prominent society women figured in these cases.
At the present time abortions are practiced chiefly in Turkey and in the United States.
It goes without saying that only a small number of the artificial abortions actually practiced ever come to the notice of the courts.
The chief effect produced, so far as offspring have been observed, is chiefly frequent abortions and infantile paralysis.
Various internal structures then follow suit "until at last formlessabortions occur, incapable of living and reproducing themselves.
New York, only one in every thousand abortions is discovered.
If the proposition is generally accepted, that abortions are justifiable as a therapeutical expedient, you open the door to the criminally inclined.
Contingencies of the above nature evoked the scientific inquiry, whether abortions are ever justifiable.
I have knownabortions being sought and abortions being committed, upon the flimsy pretext of being too weak, or too sick at the stomach.
Preventive measures of circumscribed or local peritonitis are to be found in avoiding the causes that have been referred to as inducing the affection under consideration, among which, criminal abortions are the most fruitful.
Abortions stand at the head of all the causes that excite this affection.
The syphilitic woman usually has a series of abortions or miscarriages, in which she loses the child at any time from the first to the seventh or eighth month.
In other words, the rule is that the abortions are followed later by one or more still births.
In the Fortunate Islands these abortions form a whole tribe, and those who behold them are no longer shocked or terrified at the sight.
The commissioner of health in a recent interview stated that not less than fifty thousand abortions are committed yearly in Chicago.
The girl applying for relief at any of these places was usually told that abortions were unlawful and dangerous to life.
The gods whom his deluded countrymen Acknowledged, were no gods to him; he scorn'd The impotence of skill that carved such figures, And pitied the fatuity of those Who saw not in the abortions of their hands, The abortions of their minds.
Abortions are frequently followed by severe illness, invalidism, or even death for the woman.
Some of these practitioners have many regular patients--women who visit them regularly for the purpose of having abortions produced by criminal operations.
Abortions have greatly increased in New Zealand among cows since the introduction of rye grass, which is specially subject to ergot.
The fact that repeated abortions are observed in a herd is also evidence of the presence of the disease.
All irritant poisons cause abortions by the disorder and inflammation of the digestive organs, and if such agents act also on the kidneys or womb, the effect is materially enhanced.
It has frequently coincided with abortions and failures to conceive in the same herd, so that it has been thought that the same infective germ produces one type of abortion.
An increasing number of barren females and an increasing proclivity to abortions are the necessary results of both courses.
Claye Shaw told the Interdepartmental Committee on Physical Deterioration, "we have inebriate mothers, and either abortions or degenerate children.
To-day, in spite of the huge numbers of abortions and the multiplication of foundlings' homes and orphans' asylums, infanticide is still an occasional crime in all countries.
Does anyone believe that physicians and midwives who perform abortions go from door to door soliciting patronage?
Max Hirsch, an authority on the subject, "have informed us that the largest number of abortions (in the United States) are performed on married women.
Those who are appealing for abortions would never have been in such a situation.
Why put these thousands of women who each year undergo such abortions to the pain they entail and in whatever danger attends them?
Abortions are not performed without the consent and usually only at the demand of the woman.
Infanticide tends to disappear as skill in producing abortions is developed or knowledge of contraceptives is spread, and only then.
Their instinct is sound--but what is to be said of the position of society at large, which forces women who are in the grip of a sound instinct to seek repeated abortions in order to follow that instinct?
Do we want the millions of abortions performed annually to be multiplied?
The absurd cruelty of permitting thousands of women each year to go through abortions to prevent the aggravation of diseases for which they are under treatment assuredly cannot be much longer ignored by the medical profession.
While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization.
On good authority, we are informed that eighty thousand unlawful abortions are performed annually in New York, in spite of a possible penalty of four years in the State prison.
At Common Law there was a difference of opinion as to whether all induced abortions were illegal.
Clearly, that is unjust, for criminal abortions are rarely, if ever, performed without application by the subject of the operation.
Since therapeutic abortions are legal, they may be done openly; hence the operation is performed in appropriate surroundings and with every refinement of surgical technique.
Competent surgeons, employing modern methods, may perform hundreds of abortions without the loss of a single patient.
A woman of twenty-eight years who had had eight abortions was delivered of a child with undoubted congenital syphilis.
The hemorrhages in abortions from influenza are often alarmingly profuse.
Hegar estimated that there is one of these abortions to every eight normal parturitions, and specialists in obstetrics find as many as one abortion to four deliveries at term.
There is no such act as therapeutic abortion of an inviable child; all abortions of inviable children, when direct, are criminal, and nothing criminal is therapeutic.
In inevitable and incomplete abortions we find softening and dilatation of the cervix, and a presentation or expulsion of part or all of the ovum.
These abortions are most frequent from the eighth to the twelfth week of gestation, because the ovum is then not firmly attached to the uterus, and it readily succumbs to external influence.
Rest in bed at the time when these abortionsusually occur, and at the time when menstruation customarily appears, is required.
On the third day of the pneumonia the abortions are most likely to occur.
The greater the disgrace with which illegitimacy is considered in a country, the stricter the prohibition against the use of measures for the prevention of conception, the greater the number of abortions in that country.
They know Mrs. A and Mrs. B and perhaps Miss C who had abortions produced on them and in two or three days they were as good as ever.
The number of abortions is about four times as great as the still-birth.
They say that there are five abortions to every one live birth.
Stress has been laid on the fact that abortions and monsters are not rare.
Their seat is most frequently in the womb or the breast, and they are said to be especially liable to arise in those women who have suffered several abortions or unnatural labours.
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