"And Stim's tie to the hypocrisy of modern anti-abortionists is a bit anachronistic, I'd say. I'd agree that hypocrisy is alive and well in the so-called "pro-life" movement, but modern pro-lifers are unlikely to be in favor of burying dead babies in a septic tank."

Come on Joe! You know as well as I, or any other who was raised as a Catholic, that the Church back then did not permit contraception, or abortion even when abortion was to save the mother's life.

How does that gel with delivering live babies and deliberately allowing them to starve to death because they were illegitimate?

How they disposed of the bodies, while horrific, is a side issue.

The point is that those who professed an absolute concern for preserving life, were at the same time taking life by deliberate neglect.