THE WOMAN'S CHARTER AND INFANTICIDE.
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:9
have always abominated the methods and manner of the suffragettes, and have thought the vote unnecessary to women; but the sketch of the Bills in last Saturday's papers —one provision of which practically removes baby-slaying by mothers out of the list of crimes and into the category of "regrettable incidents"—has given me pause. Surely here is a case in which the suffragettes—in default of having the vote—may break the windows of the House of Commons and be supported by the women of England as a body ! I do not know the statistics, and should like to know the number per annum of baby-slaying women whom this tender-hearted Bill desires to save from the distress of being convicted of murder, and as certainly reprieved. And at the cost of the weakening of the sense of the sanctity of babyhood when its help is most needed by a woman. A reform may be necessary, but surely the wits of England are not reduced to the point of needing to "do a great wrong " to get a necessary right.
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