The Right to Life of the Unborn Child/Prefatory

Prefatory Note to the English Edition

The book before us is an authorized and faithful translation of the work, "Het Levensrecht der Ongeboren Vrucht," published jointly by the three authors of the papers of which the work consists, namely Prof. HECTOR TREUB, M.D., a gynecologist of renown, and Rev. R. VAN OPPENRAAY, S.J., and Prof. TH. M. VLAMING, M.D., both well known authorities in their respective professions.

In offering these papers in an English version it is believed that they will prove of interest and of service to the theological and medical professions. We have here an exhaustive statement of the pro and contra of a very important and greatly mooted subject, both sides being represented by learned and distinguished defenders.

In an appendix is published an account of a recently discovered new method of procuring medical abortion, which its author, a French physician, ventures to recommend for the permission of the Church.

The translation into the English language is the work of the Rev. C. VAN DER DONCKT, of Pocatello, Idaho, who has also added some notes wherever they were thought desirable for a proper appreciation of the facts presented in this book.