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Page 46
They become acquainted with persons who have submitted to this operation
for ovarian disease, and noting nothing but improvement in their health,
attended by sterility, their intense anxiety to enjoy immunity from
child-bearing makes them eager to submit to operation.
It would be distinctly immoral to sterilize healthy women, who become
possessed with the old Roman passion for a childless life, or who simply
wish to limit their families for any selfish or personal reason.
Any law which recognizes the induction of artificial sterility should
make operative interference with those fit to procreate a healthy stock
an offence.
Induced sterility should rank with induced abortion, and be a criminal
offence, except in certain cases which could be defined.
There is much evidence to suggest that artificial sterilization may
become as a great vice, as great a danger to the State as criminal
abortion.
Artificial abortion, as commonly performed, is a much more dangerous
operation than tubo-ligature. Of the two operations, any experienced
surgeon would readily declare that the latter is the simpler and the
safer; the one less likely to lead to unfavourable complications, and
the one, moreover, that would leave the subject of it with the better
"expectancy of life."
An�sthetics and antiseptics have made this comparison possible and
true.
Any surgeon who performs tubo-ligature should be liable to prosecution,
unless he can justify his action according to the law relating to the
artificial sterility of the unfit.
While the law would eventually require to be obligatory, with regard to
the absolutely unfit, it would require to be permissive in all other
cases.
Many voluntarily abstain from marriage, because of a strong hereditary
tendency to certain diseases such as cancer and tubercle.
There must of necessity be many on the border-land between the fit and
the unfit, and clauses permitting sterilization under some circumstances
would be required.
CONCLUSION.
In conclusion let us briefly review the whole position taken up in this
imperfect study of a great question.
1. The birth-rate is rapidly and persistently declining.
2. The food-rate is persistently increasing.
3. The declining fertility is not uniform through all classes.
4. The fertility of the best is rapidly declining.
5. The fertility of the worst is undisturbed.
6. The policy of the State is inimical to the fertility of its
best, and fosters the fertility of its worst citizens.
7. The infertility of the best stock is due to voluntary
curtailment of the family, through sexual self-restraint.
8. No such-factor does or can obtain as a check to the fertility of
the unfit.
9. The proportion of the unfit to the fit is in consequence
annually increasing.
10. The _future_ of society demands that compulsory sterilization
of the unfit should be adopted.
11. No method ever tried or suggested offers the advantages of
simplicity, safety, effectiveness, and popularity, promised by
tubo-ligature.
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