110 The fertility of the criminal a greater danger to society than his depredations .-- Artificial sterility of women .-- The menopause artificially induced.

Untoward results .-- The physiology of the Fallopian tubes .-- Their ligature procures permanent sterility .-- No other results immediate or remote .-- Some instances due to disease .-- Defective women and the wives of defective men would welcome protection from unhealthy offspring.
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118 The State's humanitarian zeal protects the lives and fosters the fertility of the degenerate .-- A confirmed or hereditary criminal defined .-- Law on the subject of sterilization could at first be permissive .-- It should apply, to begin with, to criminals and the insane .-- Marriage certificates of health should be required .-- Women's readiness to submit to surgical treatment for minor as well as major pelvic diseases .-- Surgically induced sterility of healthy women a greater crime than abortion .-- This danger not remote.
CONCLUSION p.

124 THE FERTILITY OF THE UNFIT.
* * * * * INTRODUCTION.
Biology is the Science of Life.

It seeks to explain the phenomena of all life, whether animal or vegetable.