On pages 1348-49 of the March 3, 1917 edition of "Motion Picture News", a two-page ad for this film included the following copy: "Should Doctors Let Defective and Deformed Babies Die? Dr. H. J. Haiselden, the noted Chicago physician, refused to operate on a defective baby because she was deformed and would grow up a cripple, possibly an imbecile. He LET HER DIE. when an operation would have SAVED HER LIFE. Every newspaper in the land has commented on it. Hundreds of editorials have been written. Did Dr. Haiselden do right? THIS GREAT STARTLING FILM GIVES THE ANSWER. ¶ DR. HAISELDEN HIMSELF TAKES THE LEADING PART IN THIS PLAY. ¶ This play is written by Jack Lait, with such heart throbs as only Jack Lait's pen can give. It pictures the primal passions of men and women as only Jack Lait can do-the passions of Society's great and the passions of tenement starvelings-the highest beauty and joy of life and its blackest dregs. ¶ EVERY MOTHER IN AMERICA AND EVERY WOMAN WHO EXPECTS TO BE A MOTHER WILL FIGHT TO SEE THIS PLAY. ¶ IT WILL BE THE MOST TALKED OF PLAY OF THE YEAR." (This was written when "imbecile" was an actual medical term that referred to a person who had an IQ of 0 to 25, while "idiot" and "moron" referred to a person who had an IQ of 26 to 50 and 51 to 75, respectively.)