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abortion would be inevitable, are clearly and indisputably cases for instruction in contraceptive methods. It is surely also reasonable to conclude that all cases in which such evacuation or abortion are likely, are also cases for such contraceptive instruction.

Individual judgment may vary, as it depends largely on theological and other considerations in addition to the purely medical, so that an individual's attitude towards contraception and medical abortion may differ in accordance with the personal ratio of knowledge, temperament and judgment in estimating the amount of maternal danger involved.

The above, however, assumes that the woman herself, the potential mother, is to have little or no choice in the matter of her own pregnancy, and is to rely solely on her medical adviser to decide her fate in this respect. How much longer the public will be willing to take this attitude or submission is, of course, open to discussion.

Few impartial persons endowed with sympathy and humanitarian feelings would deny the right of the mother in such cases follow to have the best contraceptive knowledge available; or would deny that to permit further pregnancies would be little else than sheer cruelty.