LAWS 4307 Lecture 6: Lecture 6 February 10, 2016
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Possibly spread by crew members on christopher columbus voyage. Sausage skins (1880s) o o: gasoline rubber mixture (1912) o. Sponges w/ soap suds o: honey/crocodile dung mixture. Spread of illnesses o o o: unexpected pregnancies. In law husband and wife are one person, and the husband is that person popular english common law tradition. Women relinquished personal property to husbands upon marriage, could not independently own real property. Historically, 1st trimester abortion not seen as moral wrong. Quickening- when a women would feel the fetus. Abortion became statutory crime in british law in 1803. Decline in birth rates occurred while: marriage rates stayed relatively stable o. Ability to stay pregnant o o o o o o o o. Race suicide : approach to married life that de-emphasized family, emphasized luxury, gratification of passion. Women held responsible for fall in marital fertility. Theodore roosevelt, attributing shrinking size of anglo-saxon family to women shirking national duty:
