Abortion

As a criminal offense, maliciously producing the premature birth of a child without legal excuse. modern statutes, it is not nece ary that the mother be quick with child, nor does her consent affect the abortionist's crime. In medicine, the expulsion of the fœtus from natural causes before the fourth month; from the fourth to the sixth month IMG:content-0023.jpg:[merged small][graphic][merged small][merged small] with the Greek letters Abrasax (not Abraxas). These letters represented numerically the 365 succe ive emanations of the creative principle, as worshiped by the Gnostics.