The Right to Life of the Unborn Child... “With an appendix on a new method of operating, ejecting the Fetus alive.”
New York: Joseph F. Wagner, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Translation of a Dutch book, “Het Levensrecht der Ongeboren Vrucht.” 8vo, publisher’s mustard yellow cloth, very good, light wear and soil to cloth, contents a bit toned, old purple namestamp of Rev. Ph. A. Callery (Callery was a pastor at St. Lawrence, a church in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh). 125 pp. Treub, who was a Dutch professor of obstetrics, was a champion of women’s rights. He advocated for a better legal and social position. He also championed (higher) education for them. He and the first Dutch female physician, Aletta Jacobs, were deeply moved by the often troubled lives of women and advocated for "preventive (sexual) intercourse," or "optional sterility" (1898), which was not well-received at the time. He also advocated for legal measures to prevent marriages from being burdened by hereditary concerns (1900). “We have here an exhaustive statement of the pro and contra of a very important and greatly muted subject, both sides being represented by learned and distinguished defenders. In an appendix is published an account of a recently discovered new method of procuring medical abortion, which it's Author, a French physician, ventures to recommend for the permission of the church." Very Good. Item #C00009579
Price: $45.00