But in the present state of our gynecological knowledge this appears impracticable.
We have therefore at our hand, a simple, safe, and certain method of stopping procreation by the sterilization of women by tubo-ligature.
This operation would entail no hardship on women.

It is so easy, safe and painless, that thousands would readily submit to it to-morrow, to be relieved from the anxiety which a possible increase in their already too numerous families excites.

Hundreds of women and men to-day are living unnatural lives, because of their refusal to bring children into the world with the hereditary taint they know courses in their own veins.
Many men are living loose and irregular lives, amongst the easy women of society, because the indiscretion of their youth has damned them for ever with a syphilitic taint, which they could not fail to transmit to their progeny.
Many virtuous men and women are living a life of abstinence from even each other's society, because their physician has taught them something of the law of heredity.

Would not all these women readily submit to sterilization?
As it produces no mental nor moral, nor physical change, it violates no law, and outrages no sentiment.

It is an outrage upon society, and a greater upon an innocent helpless victim to bring a defective into the world; it is a moral act to prevent it by this means.
And of all the methods yet suggested or devised, or practised, tubo-ligature is the simplest, most effective, and least opposed to sentiment and prejudice.
It will of course be asked:--What about criminals and defective men?
Let their wives be sterilized.