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There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas, too frequent among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to avoid the expense than the shame. (5)
This is the only line in which the narrator sympathizes with Irish children, calling them "poor innocent babes." Of course, he goes on to make his proposal only half a page later.