It is KNOWN TO ALL that a GOOD PART of the children born in Cheliax must be , and now that the REACHES OF HELL have CLOSED this will only become MORE COMMON.
And it is KNOWN TO REASONABLE PEOPLE that one should not LEAVE A CHILD TO DIE OF THE COLD, lest they rise, but should STRANGLE THEM HONESTLY to be ASSURED THAT THEIR SOULS DEPART PROPERLY.
It is always the MOTHERS of children to whom this essential work falls, and as PHARASMA objects to it the mothers are often damned.
I propose that instead, as a matter of LAW AND CUSTOM, it should be the FATHERS who are obliged in this work. All CHILDREN are conceived by the act of a man and a woman both, and the man has more ABILITY than the woman to AVOID the conception if he does not PREFER it. So HE should be the one to be DAMNED for the killing of the child. This policy will encourage men to be more responsible, and NOT get women with CHILDREN that they DO NOT WISH TO RAISE.
A person might object, what of a woman who DOES NOT KNOW WHICH MAN fathered her child. Such a woman is a DESPICABLE WHORE and her behavior is NONE OF THE BUSINESS OF CIVILIZED SOCIETY. But if a woman has been REASSONABLE AND PRUDENT she should have the right to oblige the child's FATHER in the killing of the CHILD so that it is HE who is damned for it (or HAUNTED, in the CASE of HAUNTINGS, which are NOT TOO RARE).