Alito's Claim Anti Abortion is the Nation's History is a Joke


Judge Alito's draft had a claim overturning Roe would be consistent with U.S. history. Instead, it is Roe that is consistent. Benjamin Franklin was a choice guy. Franklin, and others before him, published a "cocktail" that was to rid a woman (and the man responsible) of this problem. Franklin did not carry on about abortion being either good or bad, when life begins and such stuff as we hear today. Surely, no one can deny Franklin was one of our "founding fathers." He was even in attendance at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. One contribution he tried to make was to start each session with a prayer. It was voted down.  I have my doubts also about the "Christian Nation" claim religious people make. 

Franklin included his recipe for "misfortune" (pregnancy) in a math textbook. Perhaps he got the idea from a math textbook published some years before which also had a solution for "misfortune."

Franklin was an interesting fellow to say the least. He advocated education for girls. His math book would help them, he hoped, do well in their lives.

Some copies of Franklin's math book with the recipe for miscarriages have been found with family trees and names of relatives inscribed as if the book was treated like a Bible. Certainly, it was well known and prominent among books of its time.

While Franklin professed to being a Christian, he marched to his own drum. At one point in his life he wrote and published books about gods. At the time, he had concluded there were other universes out there. Each one needed a god, he concluded, so each had a different one. These books were greeted with such outrage he stopped writing about this idea. Who knows, he might have gone to his grave with this on his mind.

We have to remember, the 1700's were not as removed from times of subsistence and starvation as we are in the U.S. today.  There are examples of indigenous peoples who counted the amount of food available and counted the number of children to feed. If there were too many some had to go, especially newborns. The whole deal of "right-to-live" is about relative prosperity. Abject poverty requires more clear thinking than does prosperity. 

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  1. Bryan KMay 11, 2022 at 10:52 AM

    I read just enough of Alito's draft to realize that it was nowhere close to being a final draft.

    Since it has been a foregone conclusion since the Supreme Court even bothered to hear this case that they would rule against Roe, I've been looking forward to seeing the logic that they would use. That's what makes reading Supreme Court decisions so interesting.

    This draft felt and sounded like it was written by a high schooler.

    They got some work to do.

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