(Correspondence) A Question of Conscience

TCA

British Medical Journal, BMJ
British Medical Journal

Extract
A physician is called in to a pregnant woman in whom abortion threatens. The disturbance is found to be due to syphilis. The physician retires to another room . . .to write a prescription. There she sees a child of the same woman which she finds to be diseased. . . . the physician, finding the child an uncomfortable object, deprives the mother of the antidote prepared for her in order that the foetus in utero may abort. . . Miss Kenealy will no doubt admit that it is constructively the same thing as to procure abortion. . .I think Miss Kenealy’s attitude is defective.


TCA. (Correspondence) A Question of Conscience. Br Med J. 1895;2(1812):746-747.