Scientific Source #86 – Report
“[T]he child is really alive from the very moment of its conception, and from that very moment is, and should be considered, a distinct being”86
86Suffolk District Medical Society Report of the Committee on Criminal Abortion. Boston, 1857, p. 8, https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/bookviewer?PID=nlm:nlmuid-10 1218760-bk.