Like most leaders of the eugenics movement, Comstock opposed abortion. What Kacsmaryk seems not to know is that like many of them, Comstock was a vocal supporter of “the bloody consequences of Social Darwinism” as Kacsmaryk says, that took the form of eugenic sterilization.
When he was asked in 1914 “Should criminals and defectives be sterilized?” he gave his full-throated endorsement, saying “by all means yes. I see no reason why the future generation should be cursed by the criminals of the present.”