02587cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000270011324500300014026400510017030000470022133600260026833700260029433800360032050000310035650801420038752015610052953400560209065300130214685600520215985600430221199900190225476554UtSlPG20260610134754.0mcr n260607r20251890utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7afr2iso639-1 4aHQ1 aSéverine,d1855-192913aLe droit à l'avortement 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-07-23  aClaudine Corbasson (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))  a"Le droit à l'avortement by Séverine" is a polemical journalistic essay written in the late 19th century. It challenges the legal and moral order of its time, arguing for women’s right to end a pregnancy and denouncing social hypocrisy around sexuality, motherhood, and the state’s demands for population growth.  The piece opens on the “Toulon scandal,” portraying the prosecution of a local politician as a vengeful, provincial conspiracy by magistrates and naval authorities rather than a quest for justice. From there, it presses a broader case: questioning where abortion “begins,” exposing the law’s inconsistencies, and asserting that before birth there is only the woman, whose life and conscience must prevail. It rebuts demographic alarms by showing how society abandons large families, citing a skilled worker with many children refused housing, and argues that many working women choose abortion out of maternal love to protect the children they already have; others act to shield their families from disgrace or, in the case of sex workers, to survive and to spare future children hardship. Dismissing the stereotype of vain “coquettes,” it notes that most women are driven by necessity, not vanity. The essay portrays abortion as a misfortune rather than a crime, honors the courage of women who risk their health, and concludes that punitive laws and a callous social order create the very conditions that force such decisions—making the law, not women, the true culprit. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cParis: René d'Hubert, 1890  aAbortion4 uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k7521911c40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76554  c117279d117279