8.  OUTRAGEOUS VIOLATION OF ALL LAW.—­The violation of all law, both natural and revealed, is the cool and villainous contract by which people entering into the marital relation engage in defiance of the laws of God and the laws of the commonwealth, that they shall be unencumbered with a family of children.  “Disguise the matter as you will,” says Dr. Pomeroy, “yet the fact remains that the first and specific object of marriage is the rearing of a family.”  “Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth,” is God’s first word to Adam after his creation.

9.  THE NATIONAL SIN.—­The prevention of offspring is preeminently the sin of America.  It is fast becoming the national sin of America, and if it is not checked, it will sooner or later be an irremediable calamity.  The sin has its roots in a low and perverted idea of marriage, and is fostered by false standards of modesty.

10.  THE SIN OF HEROD.—­Do these same white-walled sepulchres of hell know that they are committing the damning sin of Herod in the slaughter of the innocents, and are accessories before the fact to the crime of murder?  Do women in all circles of society, when practicing these terrible crimes realize the real danger?  Do they understand that it is undermining their health, and their constitution, and that their destiny, if persisted in, is a premature grave just as sure as the sun rises in the heavens?  Let all beware and let the first and only purpose be, to live a life guiltless before God and man.

11.  THE CRIME OF ABORTION.—­From the moment of conception a new life commences; a new individual exists; another child is added to the family.  The mother who deliberately sets about to destroy this life, either by want of care, or by taking drugs, or using instruments, commits as great a crime, and is just as guilty as if she strangled her new-born infant or as if she snatched from her own breast her six months’ darling and dashed out its brains against the wall.  Its blood is upon her head, and as sure as there is a God and a judgment, that blood will be required of her.  The crime she commits is murder, child murder—­the slaughter of a speechless, helpless being, whom it is her duty, beyond all things else, to cherish and preserve.

12.  DANGEROUS DISEASES.—­We appeal to all such with earnest and with threatening words.  If they have no feeling for the fruit of their womb, if maternal sentiment is so callous in their breasts, let them know that such produced abortions are the constant cause of violent and, dangerous womb diseases, and frequently of early death; that they bring on mental weakness, and often insanity; that they are the most certain means to destroy domestic happiness which can be adopted.  Better, far better, to bear a child every year for twenty years than to resort to such a wicked and injurious step; better to die, if need be, of the pangs of child-birth, than to live with such a weight of sin on the conscience.