Note 199 — VII. ITS OBSTACLES TO CONVICTION.

We have already commented upon the phraseology of the Louisiana statute. The latitude of its first clause is shown by the context to have been unintentional, and therefore hardly justifies a change in its classification. The second section of the Statute of Washington Territory, however, is closely analogous to that now given; while the final sections of the statutes both of New York and Wisconsin, which make it penal for a woman voluntarily to effect or submit to the unjustifiable induction of abortion, are equally silent regarding proof of the existence of pregnancy.