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Indirect Legislation

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lay prevent the under restraint the circulating of poisons from hand
to hand: in the second place to tr throw light upon
the fact of their having been made use of, and to
promote the discovery of the proper remedies. The first
head of expedients has been touched upon under
the article of power: the other has already been
reserved for a section which is to come.
The case art of procuring abortion stands
indeed upon peculiar ground. If the means of practising
that fatal art were generally known, at the
same time that am in the number of those
means were some of which it was is in the power of
any one to procure, the prevention of this mischief
would be altogether out of the reach of government.
But at present these means are not generally known,
to the generality of the people even in the civilized nations of Europe. To forbid
prohibit those who may be possessed of this knowledge
from communicating it, and that under a heavy penalty would therefore afford
some chance at least of keeping the mischief
within bounds. And it would a upon the
supposition that these means are in the power within the reach of
every one it is the only chance. Improving the
art of detecting the fact, and the art of applying
remedies is here of no avail. In the case of poisoning
[supposing it not to be a case of suicide] the it
is
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Identifier: | JB/087/098/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	098	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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