Looking at this, it has nothing to do with abortion but dealing with menstrual cramps.
Seriously?
You do not take opiates for abortion.
You take them for pain.
Oh gee, what kind of pain would could these unmarried women be experiencing that they would need opiates?
I will give you a hint.
It is something that means you are NOT pregnant.
I suspect he would have been the most pro-abortion Forefather, being the man-slut he was.
BS
What a discombobulated story.
I think Ben had an article in Poor Richard’s Almanack advocating for drag queen shows in preschools too. LOL
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?
They’ve already tried the “abortion recipe in the bible” angle.
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So American Leftists have discovered a reason to like one of our Founding Fathers. Whoop-de-do. Nice of them to recruit the great Ben Franklin in their push for abortion up to the moment of birth if not beyond. I guess Franklin’s statues are safe now. Babies aren’t but his statues are, such is the twisted Leftist logic.
It seems every culture in every corner of the world throughout history has had its little secret tricks to cause abortion or miscarriage.
Benjamin franklin says calls this recipe medicine for the “Supression of Courses”
Courses is absolutely a very old term for... menstruation
https://thisisversaillesmadame.blogspot.com/2018/07/courses-terms-flows-menstruation-in.html
However the recipe does include pennyroyal tea, which is an abortificient
Some years ago I purchased a DVD with over a thousand distillations and POISONS you can make at home. Most of the stuff in it is from old, old books that this guy gathered together, all digitized. It’s really, really interesting and fun. Some of the poisons are sort of fanciful, the “hair of bat, eye of newt” sort of thing. Some of it is abortifacient-type stuff.
It also shows how to make all kinds of wine and distilled beverages. From the times when everybody could make his own hooch - and poison! The illustrations are awesome. It doesn’t mention Ben Frank-Loin, America’s prototype man-slut, one single time, however.
Ben Franklin is the best President this country has ever seen.
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.
“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.
What did he put in his almanac?
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.
You have to wonder if they would be so hanging on every word of what Benjamin Franklin had to say about buggery.