t you are not justifiable in killing an
innocent aggressor except in self-defence, equally prohibits any
interference with early gestation.

"From the moment of conception the child is living. It grows, and what
grows has life. '_Homo est qui homo futurus_,' says an ancient and high
authority.

"Therefore, foeticide is not permissible at any stage of utero-gestation.

"The killing of the defenceless foetus is sometimes done in cases of
uncontrollable vomiting of pregnancy, in cases of tubal or abdominal
gestation, and the killing of the foetus is done by electricity,
injections of morphine in the amniotic sac, the puncturing of that sac,
etc.

"This practice is too lightly adopted by thoughtless or conscienceless
physicians. This practice is much on the increase. I once heard a known
obstetrician of the old school say: 'I would as lief kill, if necessary,
an unborn child as a rat.' So much for the estimate he put on the value
of human life! _O tempora! O mores!_

"Is it not time that this wanton 'massacre of the innocents' should
cease?

"Without wishing to load this paper with elaborate statistics, I shall
furnish the latest arrived at in the two operations of craniotomy and
Cesarean section.

"In the combined reports of the clinics of Berlin, Halle, and Dresden,
the maternal mortality in craniotomy was 5.8 per cent--of course, one
hundred per cent of the children lost.

"In Cesarean section the maternal mortality was eight or eleven
per cent; children's mortality, thirteen per cent.

"Caruso, the latest and most reliable statistician, not an optimist,
sums up the results from the different clinics, and comes to the
conclusion that craniotomy shows ninety-three and one one-hundredth
mothers recover, Cesarean section eighty-nine and four one-hundredths.

"Caruso, therefore, concludes that craniotomy on the living child is to
be superseded by Cesarean section. He says, therefore, that the mother
has three chances out of four, and her child nine out of ten, for life.

"Leopold, as stated above, shows a much better result, viz.: ninety-five
mothers saved out of one hundred by Cesarean section, a result equal
that obtained in craniotomy."

You notice, gentlemen, that the eminent physician whom I have been
quoting speaks with much indignation of the killing of the embryo, when
he calls it a "massacre of the innocents." By this odious term we
usually denote the massacre of the babes at Bethlehem, ordered by the