Scientific Source #85 – Report

“If we have proved the existence of foetal life begin quickening has taken place or can take place, and by all analogy and a close and conclusive process of induction, its commencement at the very beginning, at conception itself, we are compelled to believe unjustifiable abortion always a crime.”85


85Storer, H.R., On Criminal Abortion in America, J.B. Lippincott & Co. (1860), p. 13, https://books.google.com/books?id=4kprAAAAMAAJ.

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