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There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary 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, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast.
The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remains one hundred and twenty thousand children of poor parents annually born. The question therefore is, how this number shall be reared and provided for, which, as I have already said, under the present situation of affairs, is utterly impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed.
3 The reader relizes it is ironic after the proposal after it is made in paragraph 10.
4 The targets of this are the rich people and the victiums are the poor farmers and beggars.
5 The writing was mearly satirical and swift never presented a serious proposal.
6 The last paragraph was to show that swift didn't actually want this to happen and to show his writing was only meant to be ironic.
7 He also tells about the state of women's jobs. I haven't had any labor jobs so I couldn't resist the employer.
8 If I had to market babies I think it could be done. You would have to call the baby something in a different language so people don't realize it is human. Then you would have to make the baby meat not have the shape of a person then you could sell it.
8 If I had to market babies I think it could be done. You would have to call the baby something in a different language so people don't realize it is human. Then you would have to make the baby meat not have the shape of a person then you could sell it.
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