I.—The low _morale_ of the community as regards the guilt of the crime. II.—The ease with which its character, in individual cases, may be concealed. III.—The unwillingness of its victims to give testimony that would also criminate themselves. IV.—The possibility of their inducing abortion upon themselves without aid. V.—The ease with which the laws, as at present standing, may be evaded. VI.—The lack or inefficacy of judicial preventives; such as statutes for registration, and those against concealment of birth and secret burials. VII.—The prevalent ignorance of the true principles of its jurisprudence in both government officials and medical witnesses. VIII.—Social extravagance and dissipation. IX.—The doctrines of political economists. X.—The fear of child-bed. * * * * * That public opinion should at present attach so little importance to the value of fœtal life, has already been shown to be owing in great measure to ignorance respecting its actual existence in the earlier months of pregnancy. Two other, and no less general, physiological errors prevail, extensively inculcated by popular authors and lecturers for their own sinister purposes. One of these is the doctrine that it is detrimental to a woman’s health to bear children beyond a certain number, or oftener than at certain stated periods, and that any number of abortions are not merely excusable, as preventives, but advisable; it being entirely forgotten that the frequency of connection may be kept within bounds, and the times of its occurrence regulated, by those who are not willing to hazard its consequences; that if women will, to escape trouble or for fashion’s sake, forego the duty and privilege of nursing, a law entailed upon them by nature, and seldom neglected without disastrous results to their own constitutions, they must expect more frequent impregnation; that the habit of aborting is generally attended with the habit of more readily conceiving; and that abortions, accidental, and still more if induced, are generally attended by the loss of subsequent health, if not of life.