1817: Maggie Houghtaling

On this date in 1817, Maggie Houghtaling (alias Peggy Densmore) was hanged in Hudson, N.Y. for infanticide.

Houghtaling lived with the mother of 15-month-old Lewis Spencer. One awful day in August — just eight weeks before the consequent execution — the mother popped out of the house a few moments and left Lewis gnawing on a piece of bread under her roommate’s care.

When the mother returned, she found the child “apparently in convulsions, its tongue protruded from the mouth, and covered with erosions — the inside of the mouth corrugated, and all the shocking symptons which may be supposed to follow from a potion so horrid.” The potion referred to in this account of the New York Evening Post (September 23, 1817): vitriol, also known as sulfuric acid. It’ll do a number on you.

The self-evident inference was that his babysitter had poisoned the kid — an inference the mother made immediately and that Maggie Houghtaling vainly sought to repel all the way to the rope.*....

Executed Today in the US, over 2,500 children murdered by abortion. All by persons who rightly deplore the vengeful wanton murders by Hamas hackers intolerant of Jewish lives, and all who oppose their vision of world domination, versus antiseptic annihilation by those 98% of aborters who are intolerant of children burdening them.

The CDC says there were 620,327 abortions nationally in 2020 in the District of Columbia and 47 states - which does not include procedures that took place in California, Maryland or New Hampshire, whose officials refuse to share their data with the CDC - a 1.5% decrease from 629,898 in 2019. Guttmacher’s national total for 2020 was 930,160, a 1.5% increase from 916,460. Guttmacher’s figures are higher than the CDC’s in part because it includes data (and in some instances, estimates) from all 50 states. (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/01/11/what-the-data-says-about-abortion-in-the-u-s-2/)

While this is a decrease of surgical murder, these figures only include some but not all abortions that use pills mifepristone and misoprostol, which can be obtained outside of clinical settings. In 2022 54% of abortions were by abortion pills. (https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/54-of-us-abortions-happen-by-pill-not-surgery)

The Left opposes Hamas, yet not only supports the bodily mutilation of children in the womb, but after they are born (gender trans)

a suction aspiration abortion.

saline” abortion; 4 months

More - https://wisconsinrighttolife.org/pictures-of-aborted-babies-view#1642394647536-92577737-ed8f

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