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DR. HAISELDEN SAYS HE WILL PERFORM ABORTIONA doctor announced at a meeting of the Chicago Medical society last night that he was shortly going to perform an abortion operation and his hearers cheered him to the echo.The physician who made the statement was Dr. Harry J. Haiselden of Baby Bollinger fame. He has under his care a woman of 20 who has a baby six months old and is expecting' another in five months. The husband is a mental subnormal and the wife's mother Is in an insane asylum.The father is coming to me for sterilization at his own request, said Haiselden, and he wants his baby boy sterilized, so that neither can ever have children. *“1 intend to perform an abortion operation ou the woman.•'There Ik not even a radical woman’s club that will touch the subject of birth control, said Dr. Anna Blount. But statistics indicate that scientific and intellectual men are having smaller and smaller families. The rich can learn how not to have children by paying a physician a fee. The wife of the poor ought to have this knowledge, too.As physicians, said Dr. Rachelle Yarros. we are in a position to know that hundreds of children are born in conditions, physical and moral, which mean neglect, delinquency, vice and crime.We refuse to perform an abortion, but these women get relief somewhere, regardless of infection, invalidism or death. ,
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Chicago Day Book
Chicago, Illinois, US
Thu, Feb 17, 1916
Page 27
Full Page
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