Legal crime. Legal notes on the novel by Alejandro Sawa (1886)
Abstract
In 1886, Alejandro Sawa published a novel, within the prevailing naturalistic trend of the time, in which he raises a very important issue: abortion. In the development of the novel, the question of abortion is raised from two points of view: therapeutic abortion and abortion as a means to carry out a homicide, that of his own wife. The author, who had studied law, approaches the first aspect from the contrast between the problem of conscience in the light of the doctrine of the Catholic Church and science, and the second, that of uxoricide using abortion itself as a means, for which no adequate legal response is found.
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