PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - A D Farr
TI  - The Marquis de Sade and induced abortion.
AID  - 10.1136/jme.6.1.7
DP  - 1980 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 7--10
VI  - 6
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/6/1/7.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/6/1/7.full
SO  - J Med Ethics1980 Mar 01; 6
AB  - In 1795 the Marquis de Sade published his La Philosophic dans le boudoir, in which he proposed the use of induced abortion for social reasons and as a means of population control. It is from this time that medical and social acceptance of abortion can be dated, although previously the subject had not been discussed in public in modern times. It is suggested that it was largely due to de Sade's writing that induced abortion received the impetus which resulted in its subsequent spread in western society.