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100 1 _aSéverine,
_d1855-1929
245 1 3 _aLe droit à l'avortement
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-07-23
508 _aClaudine Corbasson (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: René d'Hubert, 1890
653 _aAbortion
856 4 _uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k7521911c
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76554
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