Posted on 07/06/2022 2:25:40 AM PDT by Callahan
I’ve often wondered what the French’s 17th century static electricity generators looked like. I’m sure it was just research and not practical application. But I bet they were interesting.
That is the point Pontiac makes accurately. I was being lazy. There is not always a fertilized egg that gets dumped when the uterus sheds. So there is no abortion. But sometimes there is, and the pill then acts as an abortifacient, which is why there are people that oppose the pill.
I went through a period of life understanding that distinction but discarded it as unimportant, until I realized that if you present people like Leftists with a “gray scale” with zero at one end (an unfertilized ovum) and 100 at the other end (a fully formed human whose crown has exited the birth canal) they will place their “reasonable mark” on that gray scale at 99.9999999999999% (baby 1 mm from any sign of being out of the birth canal and even at 100.0000000009% (infanticide) because they don’t believe in rationality or reasoned discussion.
When I came to understand that, I realized that the “life begins at conception” concept was not unimportant. Ignoring it is someone giving an ovum split in two (an inch) and someone else taking an entire human life (mile).
They do that because that is who they are. I ignored that distinction due to my arrogance, and ignorance of human nature.
LOL, Franklin was a lot more interesting than Adams, in many ways.
The movie is quite funny in that respect, in the script Jefferson says "Oh, Mr. Adams, you are driving me to homicide!" and Franklin, Sherman, and Livingstone come marching down the stairways singing "Homicide! Homicide!"
Well, given the context of this thread, perhaps not as funny, but...it still made me laugh.
Menstrual cramps, or irregular menstruation.
This appears to be quite a reach
“an unmarried woman ... would be sure to know when her next period was due”
I never did. Many women are extremely irregular.
LOL, well...irregularity is one thing...being caught by “surprise” is something else.
I would think a woman would want to know around the time, give or take a few days, when she was due.
Some women who are very regular give a day or two of leeway, where those who are very irregular may give a week or two...:)
Being a guy, this was generally something opaque to a large degree, unless...it wasn’t!
“I would think a woman would want to know around the time, give or take a few days, when she was due.”
Definitely ... a woman would WANT to know. Sadly, nature often doesn’t cooperate. First miss a couple months, then multiple in one month. Impossible for planning.
Show the actual words, Molly, and dispense with your feminist BS ‘interpretations.’
I just finished Walter Isaacson’s Benjamin Franklin. His biography and the work he put into it is amazing. I did, however, come away from the book with a different view of Franklin. Simply put — Franklin was a jerk. Much of this I already knew, so it wasn’t Isaacson’s spin, but all put together, I really found myself not really respecting the man very much.
I guess the bottom line would be not to wear white pants and be ready ALL the time!
You got it!!! Also if considering “the rhythm method” as a birth control option — explore every other alternative.
My mother told my sisters to use an aspirin...:)
Married women would already have an understanding of their moon cycles, therefore it would be unnecessary to advise them.
Read the text as printed here:
Now I am upon Female Infirmities, it will not be unseasonable to touch upon a common Complaint among unmarry'd Women, namely the Suppression of the Courses. This don't only disparage their Complexions, but fills them, besides, with sundry Disorders. For this Misfortune, you must purge with Highland Flagg, ( commonly called Bellyach Root ) a Week before you expect to be out of Order; and repeat the same two Days after; the next Morning drink a Quarter of Pint of Pennyroyal Water, or Decoction, with 12 Drops of Spirits of Harts-horn, and as much again at Night, when you go to Bed. Continue this 9 Days running; and every fair Day, Stir nimbly about your Affairs, and breathe as much as Possible in the open Air.
Clearly Ben Franklin was only referring to a remedy for an uncomfortable menstrual cycle.
I can buy that.
Now I am upon Female Infirmities, it will not be unseasonable to touch upon a common Complaint among unmarry'd Women, namely the Suppression of the Courses. This don't only disparage their Complexions, but fills them, besides, with sundry Disorders. For this Misfortune, you must purge with Highland Flagg, ( commonly called Bellyach Root ) a Week before you expect to be out of Order...
Unwanted pregnancy was not a common complaint among colonial women.
He refers to Suppression of the Courses, [her period]. Painful menstrual cycle would have be a common complaint.
Then he refers to associated Disorders, and then proscribes a remedy for when you are out of Order.
My word, it even proscribes Bellyach Root for the cramps.
Women in those times never considered killing a baby. They would kill themselves before that.
I typed below before I saw your agreement.
You have to wonder if they would be so hanging on every word of what Benjamin Franklin had to say about buggery.
Lol, no problem…In any case, as a MAN…My thoughts on this are probably mine alone… :-)
There was an old-school thought that virgins would stop having menstrual cramps "when they got married"—i.e. that intercourse and having a baby would cure the cramps problem. There might be some basis in endocrinology for this theory for some individuals; that's above my pay grade. But I do remember hearing this wive's tale still around some years ago.
I read Franklin's "recipe" and agree that it is not about abortion, but about easing menstrual pain.
I've also read six or eight biographies of Franklin; and while he did like the ladies, some biographers believe his rakish reputation was exaggerated. There's a contemporary example with the fake news we have been inundated with as political weaponry.
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