Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
— Marquis de Sade Contemporary

Writer, extreme libertine philosophy

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Late 18th century (approx.)

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