"Love, spite of honour’s dictates, gave thee breath; Honour, in spite of love, pronounced thy death."
— Abortion

January 1, 1970

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Anonymous, "Epitaph on a Child Killed by Procured Abortion" (1740), reported in The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse (1984), p. 335