Reporter: "Do you think there should be any limitations on abortions?"
NYC Mayor Eric Adams (D): "No. I do not."
Reporter: "None? Day of birth, totally fine?"
Adams: "No, I do not think-I think women should have a right to chose their bodies."
Currently 7 states have no limit as to when an abortion can take place.
FYI, it's a federal crime to kill a bald eagle. This protection extends to bald eagle eggs. Would it be an exaggeration to say that unborn bald eagles are valued more highly than unborn humans?
"Who wins in a battle where one person's right to life conflicts with another person's right to property?"
Unknown college ethics professor
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Benjamin Franklin taught agrarian families how to aid aborting a pregnancy.
“Fanklin saw the value of this book, and decided to create an updated version for residents of the U.S, telling readers his goal was to make the text "more immediately useful to Americans." This included updating city names, adding Colonial history, and other minor tweaks.
But as Farrell describes, the most significant change in the book was swapping out a section that included a medical textbook from London with a Virginia medical handbook from 1734 called Every Man His Own Doctor: The Poor Planter's Physician.
This medical handbook provided home remedies for a variety of ailments, allowing people to handle their more minor illnesses at home, like a fever or gout. One entry, however, was "for the suppression of the courses", which Farrell discovered meant a missed menstrual period.
"[The book] starts to prescribe basically all of the best-known herbal abortifacients and contraceptives that were circulating at the time," Farrell said. "It's just sort of a greatest hits of what 18th-century herbalists would have given a woman who wanted to end a pregnancy early."
"It's very explicit, very detailed, [and] also very accurate for the time in terms of what was known ... for how to end a pregnancy pretty early on."
What an interesting, and obscure, bit of trivia.
What makes it obscure? He’s a Founding Father. Is your side disowning them now? Let FOX announce that.
It's obscure because it has virtually zero relevance to the current abortion debate. If your point is that humanity has known how to end the lives of their offspring early for hundreds of years, that's not news. Of course the Romans simply left the newborns out in the elements to die of hunger, exposure, or be eaten, I'm not sure we want that.
It seems odd anyone would suggest there never existed people in different places and times who felt differently about serious issues, especially during the past when the level of knowledge about various topics was inferior to ours. Now, there's no excuse for those who would insist the unborn is not a person with the same right to life as everyone else. It's absurd, in fact, and clearly discriminatory, oppressive and vile.
First of all, feo would be better off providing a link to quotes he posts in support of his position...unless the true context would not be beneficial to him.
It might also provide some insight as to Franklin's motivations specifically regarding abortion. That is, he may have thought, given the times and the quality of medical care for women experiencing difficult pregnancies. It may also reflect an uninformed scientific understanding of what pregnancy or a fetus is.
In any case, as Craig points out, it is wholly irrelevant to the discussion of current mores.
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