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ABORTION2
Those who in a place of utility are accustomed to take foreign analogies & physical
for their guides in the decision of political question may will be 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 : 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 it 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 would afford.
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.
ABORTION. PUNISHMENT.
The proper Punishment for the Accomplice Assistance seems to be Banishment for life; since
lesser would insufficiently effect the purpose of Prevention — The Prosecution would notify
the existence of a person able & ready to lead his assistance to these forbidden practices: and
compleat large reward,
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of laws in general |
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abortion |
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abortion punishment |
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jeremy bentham |
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caroline vernon |
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