Anonymous, "Epitaph on a Child Killed by Procured Abortion" (1740), reported in The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse (1984), p. 335
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Love, spite of honour’s dictates, gave thee breath;
Honour, in spite of love, pronounced thy death.
— Abortion
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Love, spite of honour’s dictates, gave thee breath;
Honour, in spite of love, pronounced thy death." in the context of "Anonymous, "Epitaph on a Child Killed by Procured Abortion" (1740), reported in The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse (1984), p. 335" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Abortion
Abortion is the ending of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus.
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