But in the present
state of our gynecological knowledge this appears impracticable.
We have therefore at our hand, a simple, safe, and certain method of
stopping procreation by the sterilization of women by tubo-ligature.
This operation would entail no hardship on women. It is so easy, safe
and painless, that thousands would readily submit to it to-morrow, to be
relieved from the anxiety which a possible increase in their already too
numerous families excites. Hundreds of women and men to-day are living
unnatural lives, because of their refusal to bring children into the
world with the hereditary taint they know courses in their own veins.
Many men are living loose and irregular lives, amongst the easy women of
society, because the indiscretion of their youth has damned them for
ever with a syphilitic taint, which they could not fail to transmit to
their progeny.
Many virtuous men and women are living a life of abstinence from even
each other's society, because their physician has taught them something
of the law of heredity. Would not all these women readily submit to
sterilization?
As it produces no mental nor moral, nor physical change, it violates no
law, and outrages no sentiment. It is an outrage upon society, and a
greater upon an innocent helpless victim to bring a defective into the
world; it is a moral act to prevent it by this means.
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