On Criminal Abortion In America (1860) (Hardcover)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: is sufficient to occasion death. The same tremendous idea, so laden with the consciousness of guilt against God, humanity, and even mere natural instinct, is undoubtedly able, where not affecting life, to produce insanity. This it may do either by its first and sudden occurrence to the mind; or, subsequently, by those long and unavailing regrets, that remorse, if conscience exist, is sure to bring. Were we wrong in considering death the preferable alternative ? IV. ITS PROOFS. It is by no means an easy thing in all cases to obtain evidence that an abortion has occurred; still more difficult, that it has been intentionally induced. As most laws read, it is necessary at the outset to prove the existence of pregnancy; as many still stand, it must be shown that the woman has quickened. These requisitions are unwise and unjust, and under them, if insisted on by adroit counsel, it is almost useless to pursue prosecution. In the earlier months, before quickening has occurred or the foetal pulsations have become evident to the ear, it is impossible, as I have elsewhere insisted, ever to be sure of the existence of pregnancy, and yet attempts at its termination are then in no degree less criminal. The only infallible sign of pregnancy is the sound of the footal heart, not always to be detected, even by the double stethoscope. Putting aside, therefore, the question of the existence of pregnancy and of foetal life, as taken for granted on the one hand by the attempt at their termination, and as proved on the other by this result, it is found that the evidence of abortion classifies itself into proofs of its occurrence, of its commission, of the criminal intent, and of the identity of the party accused. 1. The Occurrence. The abortion may perhaps be known to have taken place ...

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Imprint:	Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2009
First published:	December 2009
Authors:	Horatio Robinson Storer
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages:	112
ISBN-13:	978-1-120-85099-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms Promotions
LSN:	1-120-85099-1
Barcode:	9781120850997

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