What sort of man or woman is it to whom the woman applies for relief?
"The professional abortionist is a being who recognizes no higher law than his own base interests, whose heart has long ceased to know a humane feeling, whose soul is freighted with abominable crimes, whose hands are stained with the blood of innocent children, victims of his foul lust for gain.
The sentiments of our common humanity revolt against so vile a wretch. Shall he be suffered to return to his old haunts and his old evil ways, with appetite whetted for more blood, after a few years spent in prison? All experience utters a solemn warning against so blind a policy".
The father, the mother and the abortionist, who connive at the murder of the foetus, are devoid of all reason, all morality, all pity, all mercy, and all love destitute of natural instinct and regardless of all law, human or divine; they surely incur the weight of a tremendous responsibility before God, and before the soul of the innocent babe, to whom, as well as to their own consciences, they must be prepared to offer a future explanation.
How can a man or woman, abandoned to a life of lasciviousness, continue in the perverted courses of venery, with the resolve to cheat Nature of her just dues, without incurring the wrath to come? Elegitimate sexual congress is sin, not only moral sin, but a natural sin, and those who indulge in it are "sin's fools".
It is the abortionist who tells them that chastity is prejudicial to health, and that the "relief" which he gives is of advantage to society; and he is the spontaneous product of the social and national pandering to vice which is fanned and stimulated by the immoralities and indecencies of many of our modern amusements and orgies.
What are the Risks and Dangers Attendant upon the Crime Very momentous ones indeed!
Each individual organ, and especially the uterus, of a pregnant woman is prepared by a slow and gradual change for the great effort which is to occur at the end of pregnancy, and if this effort be prematurely induced, whether by accident or design, the system is found unprepared and the imperfectly developed uterus is taken at a disadvantage, so that it cannot contract with sufficient force to completely expel its contents.
Abortion may result accidentally from blows, falls, wounds, violent coitus, excessive emotion, mental shock, etc.; or it may be done therapeutically in the interests of the mother's life or health; or it may be brought about criminally by violence, by mechanical injury to the uterus or ovum, or possibly by the use of certain drugs.
Criminal abortion is usually done at some period between the third and sixth month of pregnancy, because before the lapse of three months there is no appreciable enlargement, so that the woman hopes that she has merely missed her menstrual periods, and is not sure that she is pregnant; but after the sixth month the abdominal enlargement is so evident and "quickening" so active that it then seems to her like deliberate murder.
At the time of normal birth i.e., at the end of the two hundred and eighty days there has occurred what physiologists call a "fatty degeneration" in that portion of the placenta which is attached to the uterus, whereby it may be expelled whole and entire, thus permitting the womb to contract firmly, preventing an inordinate flow of blood, and allowing the uterus to rapidly return to its natural comparatively small size by a process called "involution".
Any deviation from this process entails a chain of events which may lay the foundation of a wide range of serious disorders, such as positional displacements of the uterus; a chronic "subinvolution" which keeps up a continued enlargement and engorgement of the womb; leucorrhcea and copious hemorrhages which deplete the system; ovarian neuralgia, pains in the back, thighs and head; general blood poisoning leading to death; pus collections in the ovaries, Fallopian tubes and peritoneum; peritonitis which mats the pelvic organs together by adhesive bands; the growth of polypi and tumors, and various other serious and permanent disorders.