Posted on 07/06/2022 2:25:40 AM PDT by Callahan
This analyais just doesn’t “add up”. At least in Franklin’s book he accepts the reality that 1+1=2 ... a fact lost on many of today’s “educators”.
He was the only President of the United States, who was never President of the United States.
I had to read it a few times, but he uses the phrase “before you expect to be out of order” which I take to mean missing the period.
I agree with the sentiment that is the Left grasping at every straw they can, but this does seem to my eye like dealing with pregnancy...or...stopping it before it goes too far.
In Colonial America, an unmarried woman (or married, and the husband is away or in a position to NOT have had sex and cause a pregnancy) would be sure to know when her next period was due, they could count as well as today, and I don’t doubt if they knew they had sex, if they were due for their next period in seven days or more, at seven days before that date they should drink “Bellyache Root” or “Highland Flagg”, and then follow the course he prescribes.
If life begins at conception, that is termination of a conception that has already occurred, or abortion, as opposed to taking birth control pills, which prevent conception.
That is how Franklin supposedly supports abortion???
I thought the advice to not get pregnant was more interesting
“nor must they long for pretty Fellows, or any other Trash whatsoever.” So: avoid sex.
Onan tried the pulling out method but it didn’t work in his favor.
Married women would not have taken it because you do take it before menstruation starts and they could be pregnant. They would not want to kill their babies.
However for unmarried women, who are not having sex and so are in no danger of being pregnant, it is quite safe.
It’s from Slate, thus propaganda.
They want to leave the impression that even our revered puritan conservative founding fathers were in favor of abortion.
The tendency is for menstrual problems to diminish over time, being most severe in adolescence, unless you have endometriosis.
Birth control pills do not always prevent conception and sometimes they function like an abortifacient.
“What a discombobulated story.”
You ain’t kidding. Deep down in the article here’s a logic she uses to justify abortion.
“... ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health will render abortion effectively illegal for myself, my students, and my daughters here in central Ohio, where new Intel factories are about to require tens of thousands of workers with advanced quantitative skills.”
In other words kill your future “workers” because Intel requires future workers.
“What’s it going to be Slate? Are the Founding Fathers out-of-touch, old, dead, rich white men whose opinions count for nothing? Or are they secret liberals who advocate for abortion?”
Whatever serves their immediate purpose.
Eighty percent of women desire twenty percent of men.
It's a burden one must bear.
Out of order refers to menstrual problems, comparable to “out of sorts” - on the rag.
Also, dealing with menstruation was several orders of magnitude more common than dealing with unwanted pregnancy so it would be odd to have an abortive recipie without menstrual accomodation.
As menstruation is monthly, it makes sense to refer to it as “courses” plural, as opposed to “course” which would be a singular event, like an unwanted pregnancy. It would be a “course” of pregnancy and not referring to multiple pregnancies, even if someone was getting knocked up on a regular basis - unless you want to believe Franklin thought his publications were being avidly read by prostitutes.
Unmarried women had much more interest in being out in society with the goal of attracting a husband. It didn’t matter so much if a married woman had to hang home because she was on the rag.
“Yet abortion was so “deeply rooted” in colonial America...”
For the sake of argument, and I don’t think it was abortion Franklin had in mind, let us say that abortion was in fact deeply rooted in colonial America (but it was never mentioned!!). Would that make it Constitutional? Slavery existed in colonial America. Does that make slavery inherently Constitutional, and obviously the Founders were headed in the direction of getting rid of it.
You have a misconception of how birth control pills work (the most common misconception)
Birth control pills work by fooling the uterus into believing it is already pregnant, thus preventing implantation of a fertilized egg.
Conception is the joining of the sperm and the egg.
When the pill works as intended it is causing an abortion.
He was President of Pennsylvania.
What did he put in his almanac?
Franklin succeeded in getting Funding for the American Revolution from the French.
Yes, he was very popular with the ladies in France.
Dr. Franklin had a reputation about science and some “other things”.
Of course Ben Franklin was President. He is literally on currency.
Ben Franklin also invented kites…..and electricity.
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