Last week appeared the first complete, authoritative medical textbook on how to produce and prevent abortions.* Forty-six centuries ago a Chinese emperor wrote down the first medical prescription for bringing about abortions. A thousand years later an Egyptian described on papyrus the tools necessary for the surgical production of abortion.
Jews and Christians are on theological principle opposed to any procedure which interrupts pregnancy. Nevertheless Dr. Frederick Joseph Taussig, famed St. Louis gynecologist, author of last week's milestone text, finds that every tribe, nation, people and race from time immemorial has...
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