Some Social Aspects of Abortion *Read by invitation at a meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society held on 8th February 1939.
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I believe that most philosophers agree that ethics has no absolute standard. There is no ultimate appeal or norm beside which a system or detail of ethics can be compared, and therefore we must begin the moral consideration of this subject, abortion, as of all other problems of morality, by remembering that what is rightness or wrongness is the result of the public opinion of the race, epoch, and civilisation as formed by the stress of all other moral considerations which operate on it. The morality of a people is the line of conduct which is found most compatible with the success of the gregarious life, and is the result of adjustment of conflicting individual desires. Certain features of the primitive conventional moral system are gradually defined as compulsory and
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