Meanwhile, Dr. H. S. Pomeroy, the author of The Ethics of Marriage, and a fervent antiabortionist, made the same link. He said, “There are advocates of education who seek to deter woman by false pride, from performing the one duty she is perfectly sure of being able to do better than a man! And there are those who teach that their married sisters may save time and vitality for high and noble pursuits by ‘electing’ how few children shall be born to them.”

