Unlike Lehmkuhl, moralists agree that if there is real danger of abortion from marital congress, such an act is illicit, but they are inclined to think that there is little or no danger of abortion, especially at the end of gestation. Authorities on obstetrics, on the contrary, say that one of the causes of abortion in the early months of pregnancy is marital congress; and one of the sources of sepsis in women, which may result in the death of both mother and child, is certainly congress at the end of gestation. This causation of abortion is found especially in neurotic irritable women, in such as have diseases of the generative tract, or a tendency to habitual abortion. Whenever a woman shows any tendency to bleeding during gestation the use of the debitum is undoubtedly contraindicated, because of the proximate danger of both abortion and septic infection. Toward the end of pregnancy the danger from sexual commerce is the risk of infecting the woman's vagina with bacteria which may bring on sepsis through the abrasions incident to parturition. The staphylococcus pyogenes albus, a dangerous septic microörganism, exists as a saprophyte in 50 per cent. of male urethras, and the bacillus coli communis is another source of infection from the father during pregnancy. De Lee saw two cases of sepsis that killed both mother and child from such an infection shortly before term. If a physician now examines a woman before delivery without using all the precautions known to prevent sepsis, such as wearing a sterile rubber glove, he is guilty of malpractice; yet certain moralists are inclined to let a husband do what he likes. Moralists talk about the fetus as protected in the membranes. That is nonsense, because it has no relevancy to the question. It can have the slight relevancy of untruth when the woman is rendered septic, because then the membranes are no protection at all.