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Show T Lit i'UOiMStTto contained in the address of Julge lie i ford, of New York, to the grand jury, ilia; the .ddt- j tuci bo amended so a? 10 make abortion i murder in the tirt decree, ,-hould re-ceive re-ceive the earnest attention of legislators. Abortion, under certain eircum stances, is as lit -rant muruYr a.- any that can I be committed, for it destroys human life even if the unliable womaa on : whni.i the operation is performed ihould iurvive. Lut w lie a the torturing ir.d ii'.aiu'ling which some of these urj-Ortunaio urj-Ortunaio beings are made to suffer by iiutuan butchers is considered, there seems scarcely any punishment adequate ade-quate to the crime. Its fearful prevalence prev-alence in tho larger cities of the country, so palpably brought to the j surface east and west by recent discov- erics of murders committed under the guue of professional services, should , stir op the nation to demand that some prompt and powerful means bo adopted auvy its progress. |
