Femina, A Work for Every Woman — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
Femina, A Work for Every Woman
John Stuart Mill · en
The mystic union is accomplished at the time and moment of conception,
when a _unit_ of the universal spirit becomes _individualized_ into a
human soul. In the dark recesses of the mother’s womb the ovum of the
female and the germ of the male, imbued by the immortal spirit, begin
their growth and development together, this constitutes the _triune_ of
nature, from which the evolutions of body and soul take their beginning.
Sexual instinct is not an unholy and depraved action of the human
mind, but the necessary means to an end, a finite instrumentality
of the Divine mind to procreate the body, as an abode for the human
soul. One of the attributes of the Creator is, in the very nature of
things, _to create_, and he has thus endowed us, His creatures, for
the manifestation of His creative power. He perpetually and eternally
creates, and this has no reference to time, place or space: just as
in the beginning, God created all things, so we recognize the supreme
hand, now, to-day, and forever, ever active in His natural element.
The operation of nature’s law may be contravened by the selfish,
sordid, criminal acts of the human heart, but it cannot be frustrated.
No one can console himself, that the invincible law of evolution is
at the capricious behest of finite man, and can be neutralized and
obstructed at will; that would place a limitation on the Creator;
it would contradict the omnipotence of the Divine mind; it would
place every life or soul at the mercy of the sordid conscienceless
abortionist, and it would reduce the Divine origin of man and the
soul’s immortality to an absurdity.
After the fetus is murdered, its soul continues to grow in the
spiritual realm, an undying witness of the criminal infamy which
deprived it of that earthly experience which nature intended for the
children of men. It is the greatest crime against nature to kill off a
human fetus, and prematurely hurl into eternity a human soul, which has
the same right to human experience as those already born, and, in the
eyes of God, it is no less a crime than the murder of an adult.
“Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.”
The meaning of the term abortion is etymologically not to be born or
not to be carried out, or, in other words, the premature expulsion
of the fetus from its mother’s womb, which is any time before it is
capable of independent existence. This is according to the construction
of the law of France, which means any time previous to the termination
of the sixth month of pregnancy. Abortion may be accidental, that is,
it may be due to a casualty which was entirely beyond the control of
the person suffering or going through an abortion, or it may be due to
disease affecting either the embryo or the mother.