Dr. Frederick Joseph Taussig explained why the number of deaths from illegal abortions was falling during his times:
“The discovery of asepsis and antisepsis has not proved any unmixed blessing. Criminal abortion can at the present time be done with less danger of blood poisoning than formerly. The result is inevitable. One of the main deterrent factors in the production of abortion is gone when the woman realizes that her own life is not necessarily imperiled.”
Frederick Joseph Taussig The Prevention and Treatment of Abortion (St. Louis: C V Mosby, 1910) 78 – 79
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