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ABORTION2

Those who in place of utility are accustomed to take foreign analogies & physical
for their guides in the decision of political questions may will be startled at first sight, at the notion of
punishing the distinction of the same being when contingent, of which the slaughter
existing brought into existence is and let pass with impunity: accordingly the uninstructed instinct of the people
would be apt strongly to revolt against the partial distinction. But as the reason of it tho
not obvious, is no less speedy than solid when it is made known, & coincides well with
the train of their moral affections, the annexing that in reason to the Law against abortions
would it should never obviate the objection against such a prohibition, or rather the
permission, which such a prejudice if invariable would afford.

Admission that among the Ancients
it was frequent
Why where those Crimes called
Unnatural -

Abortion seems to be the only abuse evident to the gener
Of the serious abuses evident to the generative faculty, Abortion seems to be the only one from
which (that fatal one, against which, being the work of solitude solitary, all Laws are important, excepted) from
which society has any thing seriously to apprehend, on this side score of populations.

It is to be supposed there will always
be sufficient number resort to the
natural sense of population, if not
dried up as this will do it.
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ABORTION. PUNISHMENT.

The proper Punishment for the Accomplice Assistance seems to be Banishment for life; since
lesser would sufficiently effect the purpose of Prevention — The Prosecutor would notify
the existence of a person able & ready to lead his assistance to these forbidden practices: and
large reward, might would it is to be supposed, tempt him to the that peril of another provocation, which joined to the considerator
the consideration of the equal motive which the only probable witness has to secrecy, would
in the use of such an one much diminish. He would be the more violently imputed to this course of evil
as it may be supposed, the loss of character would in great measure preclude him from every other [lawful one.]

For the Woman, the Infamy
of a place in the procession among the
with some symbolical representation
- as Wax Babies hung
about her neck. ABORTION [BR][2]

Identifier: | JB/070/271/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 70.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	070	Main Headings	of laws in general
Folio number	271	Info in main headings field	abortion
Image	002	Titles	abortion punishment
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23386
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