Paragraph 2 of 2 Sentence 2 of 3 Finally. The next sentence is a single claim, and one that’s easily tracked down and confirmed: “In Maryland in 1652, for example, an indictment charged that a man ‘Murtherously endeavoured to destroy or Murther the Child by him begotten in the Womb.’ Proprietary v. Mitchell, 10 Md. […]