diseases can be attributed solely to this
practice. The objection to the use of the syringe is that if the sperm has
passed into the uterus the fluid cannot reach it. A cold fluid may, in some
instances, produce contractions to throw it off, but cannot be relied
upon."

12. IS IT EVER RIGHT TO PREVENT CONCEPTION? We submit the following case of
the _Juke_ family, mostly of New York State, as related by R. L. Dugdale,
when a member of the Prison Association, and let the reader judge for
himself:

"It was traced out by painstaking research that from one woman called
Margaret, who, like Topsy, merely 'growed' without pedigree as a pauper in
a village on the upper Hudson, about eighty-five years ago, there descended
673 {244} children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, of whom 200
were criminals of the dangerous class, 280 adult paupers, and fifty
prostitutes, while 300 children of her lineage died prematurely. The last
fact proves to what extent in this family nature was kind to the rest of
humanity in saving it from a still larger aggregation of undesirable and
costly members, for it is estimated that the expense to the State of the
descendants of Maggie was over a million dollars, and the State itself did
something also towards preventing a greater expense by the restrain
exercised upon the criminals, paupers, and idiots of the family during a
considerable portion of their lives."

13. THE LEGAL ASPECT.--By the Revised Statutes of the United States it is
provided "that no obscene, * * * or lascivious book, picture, or any
article or thing designed or intended for the prevention of conception or
producing of abortion shall be carried in the mail, and any person who
shall knowingly deposit or cause to be deposited for mailing or delivery
any of the hereinbefore mentioned things shall be guilty of misdemeanor,"
etc. In New Jersey, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas and District of Columbia
we find no local law against abortion. Nine states, viz.: New Hampshire,
Connecticut, New York, Indiana, Wisconsin, Dakotas, Wyoming and California
punish the woman upon whom the abortion is attempted; while Massachusetts,
New York, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Kansas and California punish
the advertising or furnishing of means for the prevention of conception;
and Ohio makes it a crime to even have such means in one's possession.
There is exception made in favor of every case where the early birth of the
infant is necessary to s