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Now, the radical leftists are encouraging girls
to compete in the workplace by … becoming men.
And people wonder why teen girls are suicidal?
It’s too much for vulnerable adolescents to handle.”
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Now, the radical leftists are encouraging girls
to compete in the workplace by … becoming men.
And people wonder why teen girls are suicidal?
It’s too much for vulnerable adolescents to handle.”
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Because of woke indoctrination,
one in three young American girls now wants to DIE
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https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-03-08-
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Because of woke indoctrination,
one in three young American girls now wants to DIE
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https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-03-08-
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(Natural News)
The latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that females today are overwhelming miserable and unhappy, with one out of three of them now considering suicide as the solution to their hopelessness.
Radical feminism has brainwashed three out of five girls into hating their lives, while at least 33 percent of young women is now contemplating suicide as a way out of the hell the globalists have created for them.
“What’s especially troubling about this report is how it runs counter to today’s conventional wisdom,” wrote Auguste Meyrat in a column about the suicide trend, which has spiked 60 percent since a decade ago.
“After all, our society allegedly celebrates women more than ever and offers abundant opportunities to girls. Furthermore, women are doing much better than men in some crucial areas, outnumbering them at colleges and in the workplace. Moreover, strong female protagonists abound in popular movies and television shows.
Women have more representation in politics and sports. Schools continually push girls to achieve and break glass ceilings. No longer do girls live in a world where they’re expected to find a husband, have children, and submit to lifelong domestic drudgery. They can do anything.”
In other words, females have everything their most militant predecessors demanded in the name of “equality,” but their unhappiness levels are off the charts – and so much so that many young women just want to die in order to quell their persistent misery.
Girls would be happier if they rejected toxic femininity and embraced their God-given femininityHow did we get here?
The answer is toxic femininity, also known as feminism. It was branded and sold to girls as the solution to all their problems, when in actuality it is one of the causes of their misery.
Social media and the so-called “transgender” movement are additional factors in the demise of healthy and normal femininity, which barely even exists anymore in modern America.
Writing for The New American, Alex Newman wrote his own column about the matter arguing that public school indoctrination has destroyed children’s minds, including those of young girls who are being told to reject their God-given instincts in exchange for modern “woke” ideals.
“… the federal government suggested that government schools could and should be the solution to the crisis they have caused,” Newman writes.
“In reality, the escalating godlessness, immorality, humanism and ever-more extreme ‘Comprehensive Sex Education’ being forced on children in indoctrination centers masquerading as ‘public schools’ are almost certainly the primary source of the problem. Adding more of the same is tantamount to throwing gasoline on this deadly dumpster fire.”
(Related: Pervert teachers and school administrators are abusing children with “gender fluid” curriculum.)
When you really break down what the leftists are actually telling young girls in the name of female “empowerment,” the clear message is that simply being a girl is not good enough. In order to be an “empowered” woman, a girl must try to become a boy in her appearance, behavior, and work.
“Yes, being a girl is no longer good enough,” writes Patrice Lewis for WND. “Maybe if they chop off their lady parts and replace them with man parts, that will all change. Forget brains – they must be disregarded at worst and remolded into the opposite gender at best.”
“Gone are the days when girls were told they had to deny any biological urge toward motherhood and compete in the work place as purely intellectual creatures, matching men with their brains.
Now, the radical leftists are encouraging girls to compete in the workplace by … becoming men. And people wonder why teen girls are suicidal? It’s too much for vulnerable adolescents to handle.”
More of the latest news about the downfall of America at the hands of “woke” perverts can be found at Wokies.news.
Sources for this article include:
WND.com
NaturalNews.com
The latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that females today are overwhelming miserable and unhappy, with one out of three of them now considering suicide as the solution to their hopelessness.
Radical feminism has brainwashed three out of five girls into hating their lives, while at least 33 percent of young women is now contemplating suicide as a way out of the hell the globalists have created for them.
“What’s especially troubling about this report is how it runs counter to today’s conventional wisdom,” wrote Auguste Meyrat in a column about the suicide trend, which has spiked 60 percent since a decade ago.
“After all, our society allegedly celebrates women more than ever and offers abundant opportunities to girls. Furthermore, women are doing much better than men in some crucial areas, outnumbering them at colleges and in the workplace. Moreover, strong female protagonists abound in popular movies and television shows.
Women have more representation in politics and sports. Schools continually push girls to achieve and break glass ceilings. No longer do girls live in a world where they’re expected to find a husband, have children, and submit to lifelong domestic drudgery. They can do anything.”
In other words, females have everything their most militant predecessors demanded in the name of “equality,” but their unhappiness levels are off the charts – and so much so that many young women just want to die in order to quell their persistent misery.
Girls would be happier if they rejected toxic femininity and embraced their God-given femininityHow did we get here?
The answer is toxic femininity, also known as feminism. It was branded and sold to girls as the solution to all their problems, when in actuality it is one of the causes of their misery.
Social media and the so-called “transgender” movement are additional factors in the demise of healthy and normal femininity, which barely even exists anymore in modern America.
Writing for The New American, Alex Newman wrote his own column about the matter arguing that public school indoctrination has destroyed children’s minds, including those of young girls who are being told to reject their God-given instincts in exchange for modern “woke” ideals.
“… the federal government suggested that government schools could and should be the solution to the crisis they have caused,” Newman writes.
“In reality, the escalating godlessness, immorality, humanism and ever-more extreme ‘Comprehensive Sex Education’ being forced on children in indoctrination centers masquerading as ‘public schools’ are almost certainly the primary source of the problem. Adding more of the same is tantamount to throwing gasoline on this deadly dumpster fire.”
(Related: Pervert teachers and school administrators are abusing children with “gender fluid” curriculum.)
When you really break down what the leftists are actually telling young girls in the name of female “empowerment,” the clear message is that simply being a girl is not good enough. In order to be an “empowered” woman, a girl must try to become a boy in her appearance, behavior, and work.
“Yes, being a girl is no longer good enough,” writes Patrice Lewis for WND. “Maybe if they chop off their lady parts and replace them with man parts, that will all change. Forget brains – they must be disregarded at worst and remolded into the opposite gender at best.”
“Gone are the days when girls were told they had to deny any biological urge toward motherhood and compete in the work place as purely intellectual creatures, matching men with their brains.
Now, the radical leftists are encouraging girls to compete in the workplace by … becoming men. And people wonder why teen girls are suicidal? It’s too much for vulnerable adolescents to handle.”
More of the latest news about the downfall of America at the hands of “woke” perverts can be found at Wokies.news.
Sources for this article include:
WND.com
NaturalNews.com
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Women are Being Eliminated
to Depopulate the Planet
https://henrymakow.com/2023/03/depopulation-via-the-elimination.html
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Women are Being Eliminated
to Depopulate the Planet
https://henrymakow.com/2023/03/depopulation-via-the-elimination.html
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Helena Glass -
"The NBA has apologized for saying only women can have babies. And the MSM smugly sneers. But where are all the women - the gender born women - who don't understand that the gender of women is being eliminated from existence? Feminists who embrace womanhood are eerily silent.
The ultimate agenda would appear to be the elimination of gender completely. Humans, homo sapiens, will be neuter. And ultimately extinct replaced by transhumans and AI."
Henry Makow-
Masculinity is defined by power. Femininity is defined by sacrificing power for male power expressed as love. (Why female weakness is a male turn-on.) Feminism neutered women by making them pursue power instead of love, which also neutered men. Instead of empowering men, feminists emasculated them by taking their power. The planetary owners no longer need people to marry and reproduce. They no longer need or want people to be heterosexual.
Depopulation Via Elite Eugenics & Creation of Transhumans
by Helena Glass
(henrymakow.com)
Did it begin with women wearing men's clothes? Or taking men's names? Or cursing like drunken sailors? Smoking cigars? Not having babies - and if they did, hiring servants/slaves to raise them into nice libtards? Because being female was no longer tolerated and women needed to 'Man Up'!
Simultaneously, men were told to be submissive and pliant. To emote. To leave their logic and rationale in the desk drawer in favor of crying. Testosterone levels tanked and Estrogen lev els took over! I remember 'penis envy' accusations were rampant in the Media in the 1970's. Now we have pregnancy envy. The point of which is not the LGBTQRX ideology of labels - but the elimination of the labels; male and female.
Why?
Certainly, the largest reason would be the complete annihilation and denunciation of religion which not only terms male and female as opposite genders but defines roles based on these genders. The source of female being Adam's HelpMate. Religion has been the bastard child of the elite - and its destruction has been toxic.
But a secondary reason is to actually eliminate reproduction - aka population. Accomplished thru a) 'transitioning', and b) a movement that foretells the world is in the hands of Satan - disarray and chaos. - Thereby levelling "FEAR" as the hysteria for not bringing a baby into this world.
It bears noting that the same people advocating for depopulation have a fair number of children. For example: Soros - 6, Pelosi - 5 children and 9 grandkids. But the mentality is classic Eugenics - the elite should have more children because they have money - and money equates to a better education and a better person... Sometimes. Obviously Paris Hilton would be an exception to the rule.
Male sperm count has been a topic for a decade. What could possibly be causing this reduction that seems on a downward spiral? Drugs. Prescription drugs. Drugs even in the class of "Advil" have been shown to impact sperm volumes. Opioids, anti-depressants, alpha blockers, chemo, testosterone, and various vaccines are all contributors. If you are on more than one - the prognosis is relatively slim. Invitro is likely to become the norm instead of the exception.
Abortion is the go-to for blacks as a means of 'birth control'. Supported by Martin Luther King, Jr., Planned Parenthood has been endorsed as black eugenics for liberals. CoVid Vax was targeting the elderly, the homeless, the addicts, who no longer contribute to society.
You can't have arbitrary eugenics - or society will collapse. But focusing on elites is hardly the solution either. Bill Gate's son Rory wants to be an actor - his degree, a diploma from a target rack costing hundreds of thousands. AOC's degree is questionable. They hardly fit the mould.
FOOD
Although resource shortages including food, have been declared to be the reasoning behind the depopulation agenda, the US has 900 million acres of agriculture land. By comparison, the EU has 5 million ... Shortages didn't exist until the 2030 Agenda was pushed into high gear. Bugs are to food what lithium batteries are to cars. A Hoax. Our resources are ABUNDANT!
Today, Japan announced a negative birth rate. Taiwan has the lowest rate in the world. In 2019, before the Russian incursion, Ukraine had the highest negative birth rate with most of Europe following course. It would follow that Ukraine would be the test subject for complete erasure of its population in order to recolonize with elite offspring.
Perhaps along the line of building a city such as the Saudi NEOM which is slated to cost $500 billion for 10,000 sq miles using slave labor.
Pushing the Ukraine population into Germany, Poland and Russia, razing the cities and villages to vast volumes of dust and rubble, Ukraine still maintains vast sources of resources. Including its Black Soil - the best in the world for agriculture, natural gas, iron ore, salt, oil, timber, etc... Rebuilding of Ukraine has already hit the architectural boards as countries drool with the monetary prospects. Cost estimates run from $500 billion to multiple trillions.
But water is still a crotchety nail in the coffin for Ukraine... unless Russia's vast freshwater resource can be tapped. The only way to assure that would be the defeat of Putin via a Coup. Multiple coups failed. Miserably. The German trained Navalny still languishes in a Soviet penal colony. And the Mafia Cabalists looked like fools! Defeated.
DEFEAT IS A CLOAK FOR SHAME
The multi-pronged Agenda 2030 released multiple ideologies including an 'optimal global population' which at its highest is deemed to be roughly 2 billion - a reduction of 75%.
The countries hosting the most people include China, India, and Africa with 1.4 billion, 1.4 billion and 1.4 billion respectively. Notation: these population numbers are completely unknown given census are relatively worthless. Instead the elites have pushed - Algorithm guestimates that could have an error rate as high as +/- as much as 50%.
Depopulating the US and EU will barely dent the global population. Enter, Bill Gates. Vaccinate them - to death. Give them incurable diseases. Starve them with climate manipulations.
In the end, Eugenics is the means and Hitler was the model for the creation of a 'Superior Race' which could quite easily go awry and be the next Dark Ages wherein Conquest is Survival.
"The NBA has apologized for saying only women can have babies. And the MSM smugly sneers. But where are all the women - the gender born women - who don't understand that the gender of women is being eliminated from existence? Feminists who embrace womanhood are eerily silent.
The ultimate agenda would appear to be the elimination of gender completely. Humans, homo sapiens, will be neuter. And ultimately extinct replaced by transhumans and AI."
Henry Makow-
Masculinity is defined by power. Femininity is defined by sacrificing power for male power expressed as love. (Why female weakness is a male turn-on.) Feminism neutered women by making them pursue power instead of love, which also neutered men. Instead of empowering men, feminists emasculated them by taking their power. The planetary owners no longer need people to marry and reproduce. They no longer need or want people to be heterosexual.
Depopulation Via Elite Eugenics & Creation of Transhumans
by Helena Glass
(henrymakow.com)
Did it begin with women wearing men's clothes? Or taking men's names? Or cursing like drunken sailors? Smoking cigars? Not having babies - and if they did, hiring servants/slaves to raise them into nice libtards? Because being female was no longer tolerated and women needed to 'Man Up'!
Simultaneously, men were told to be submissive and pliant. To emote. To leave their logic and rationale in the desk drawer in favor of crying. Testosterone levels tanked and Estrogen lev els took over! I remember 'penis envy' accusations were rampant in the Media in the 1970's. Now we have pregnancy envy. The point of which is not the LGBTQRX ideology of labels - but the elimination of the labels; male and female.
Why?
Certainly, the largest reason would be the complete annihilation and denunciation of religion which not only terms male and female as opposite genders but defines roles based on these genders. The source of female being Adam's HelpMate. Religion has been the bastard child of the elite - and its destruction has been toxic.
But a secondary reason is to actually eliminate reproduction - aka population. Accomplished thru a) 'transitioning', and b) a movement that foretells the world is in the hands of Satan - disarray and chaos. - Thereby levelling "FEAR" as the hysteria for not bringing a baby into this world.
It bears noting that the same people advocating for depopulation have a fair number of children. For example: Soros - 6, Pelosi - 5 children and 9 grandkids. But the mentality is classic Eugenics - the elite should have more children because they have money - and money equates to a better education and a better person... Sometimes. Obviously Paris Hilton would be an exception to the rule.
Male sperm count has been a topic for a decade. What could possibly be causing this reduction that seems on a downward spiral? Drugs. Prescription drugs. Drugs even in the class of "Advil" have been shown to impact sperm volumes. Opioids, anti-depressants, alpha blockers, chemo, testosterone, and various vaccines are all contributors. If you are on more than one - the prognosis is relatively slim. Invitro is likely to become the norm instead of the exception.
Abortion is the go-to for blacks as a means of 'birth control'. Supported by Martin Luther King, Jr., Planned Parenthood has been endorsed as black eugenics for liberals. CoVid Vax was targeting the elderly, the homeless, the addicts, who no longer contribute to society.
You can't have arbitrary eugenics - or society will collapse. But focusing on elites is hardly the solution either. Bill Gate's son Rory wants to be an actor - his degree, a diploma from a target rack costing hundreds of thousands. AOC's degree is questionable. They hardly fit the mould.
FOOD
Although resource shortages including food, have been declared to be the reasoning behind the depopulation agenda, the US has 900 million acres of agriculture land. By comparison, the EU has 5 million ... Shortages didn't exist until the 2030 Agenda was pushed into high gear. Bugs are to food what lithium batteries are to cars. A Hoax. Our resources are ABUNDANT!
Today, Japan announced a negative birth rate. Taiwan has the lowest rate in the world. In 2019, before the Russian incursion, Ukraine had the highest negative birth rate with most of Europe following course. It would follow that Ukraine would be the test subject for complete erasure of its population in order to recolonize with elite offspring.
Perhaps along the line of building a city such as the Saudi NEOM which is slated to cost $500 billion for 10,000 sq miles using slave labor.
Pushing the Ukraine population into Germany, Poland and Russia, razing the cities and villages to vast volumes of dust and rubble, Ukraine still maintains vast sources of resources. Including its Black Soil - the best in the world for agriculture, natural gas, iron ore, salt, oil, timber, etc... Rebuilding of Ukraine has already hit the architectural boards as countries drool with the monetary prospects. Cost estimates run from $500 billion to multiple trillions.
But water is still a crotchety nail in the coffin for Ukraine... unless Russia's vast freshwater resource can be tapped. The only way to assure that would be the defeat of Putin via a Coup. Multiple coups failed. Miserably. The German trained Navalny still languishes in a Soviet penal colony. And the Mafia Cabalists looked like fools! Defeated.
DEFEAT IS A CLOAK FOR SHAME
The multi-pronged Agenda 2030 released multiple ideologies including an 'optimal global population' which at its highest is deemed to be roughly 2 billion - a reduction of 75%.
The countries hosting the most people include China, India, and Africa with 1.4 billion, 1.4 billion and 1.4 billion respectively. Notation: these population numbers are completely unknown given census are relatively worthless. Instead the elites have pushed - Algorithm guestimates that could have an error rate as high as +/- as much as 50%.
Depopulating the US and EU will barely dent the global population. Enter, Bill Gates. Vaccinate them - to death. Give them incurable diseases. Starve them with climate manipulations.
In the end, Eugenics is the means and Hitler was the model for the creation of a 'Superior Race' which could quite easily go awry and be the next Dark Ages wherein Conquest is Survival.
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INFANTICIDE AND ABORTION.
by
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
1881
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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19924/19924-h/19924-h.htm#chapg
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Not a modern crime--Causes of the crime--The nature of the crime--Instruments of crime--Results of this unnatural crime--An unwelcome child--The remedy--Murder by proxy
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by
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
1881
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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19924/19924-h/19924-h.htm#chapg
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Not a modern crime--Causes of the crime--The nature of the crime--Instruments of crime--Results of this unnatural crime--An unwelcome child--The remedy--Murder by proxy
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INFANTICIDE AND ABORTION.
Few but medical men are aware of the enormous proportions which have been assumed by these terrible crimes during the present century. That they are increasing with fearful rapidity and have really reached such a magnitude as to seriously affect the growth of civilized nations, and to threaten their very existence, has become a patent fact to observing physicians. The crime itself differs little, in reality, from that considered in the last section, the prevention of conception. It is, in fact, the same crime postponed till a later period.
We quote the following eloquent words on this subject:--
"Of all the sins, physical and moral against man and God, I know of none so utterly to be condemned as the very common one of the destruction of the child while yet in the womb of the mother. So utterly repugnant is it that I can scarcely express the loathing with which I approach the subject.
Murder!—murder in cold blood, without cause, of an unknown child; one's nearest relative; in fact, part of one's very being; actually having, not only one's own blood in its being, but that blood momentarily interchanging! Good God! Does it seem possible that such depravity can exist in a parent's breast—in a mother's heart!
"'Tis for no wrong that it has committed that its sweet life is so cruelly taken away. Its coming is no disgrace; its creation was not in sin, but—its mother 'don't want to be bothered with any more brats; can hardly take care of what she has got; is going to Europe in the spring.'
"We can forgive the poor deluded girl—seduced, betrayed, abandoned—who, in her wild frenzy, destroys the mute evidence of her guilt. We have only sympathy and sorrow for her. But for the married shirk who disregards her divinely-ordained duty, we have nothing but contempt, even if she be the lordly woman of fashion, clothed in purple and fine linen. If glittering gems adorn her person, within there is foulness and squalor."[30]
Not a Modern Crime.
Although this crime has attained remarkable proportions in modern times, it is not a new one by any means, as the following paragraph will suffice to show:--
"Infanticide and exposure were also the custom among the Romans, Medes, Canaanites,
Babylonians, and other Eastern nations, with the exception of the Israelites and Egyptians. The Scandinavians killed their offspring from pure fantasy. The Norwegians, after having carefully swaddled their children, put some food into their mouths, placed them under the roots of trees or under the rocks to preserve them from ferocious beasts. Infanticide was also permitted among the Chinese, and we saw, during the last century, vehicles going round the streets of Pekin daily to collect the bodies of the dead infants.
Today there exist foundling hospitals to receive children abandoned by their parents.
The same custom is also observed in Japan, in the isles of the Southern Ocean, at Otaheite, and among several savage nations of North America. It is related of the Jaggers of Guinea, that they devour their own children."[31]
The Greeks practiced infanticide systematically, their laws at one time requiring the destruction of crippled or weakly children. Among all the various nations, the general object of the crime seems to have been to avoid the trouble of rearing the children, or to avoid a surplus, objects not far different from those had in view by those who practice the same crimes at the present time.
The destruction of the child after the mother has felt its movements is termed infanticide; before that time it is commonly known as abortion. It is a modern notion that the child possesses no soul or individual life until the period of quickening, an error which we have already sufficiently exposed.
The ancients, with just as much reason, contended that no distinct life was present until after birth. Hence it was that they could practice without scruple the crime of infanticide to prevent too great increase of population. "Plato and Aristotle were advocates of this practice, and these Stoics justified this monstrous practice by alleging that the child only acquired a soul at the moment when it ceased to have uterine life and commenced to respire. From hence it resulted that, the child not being animated, its destruction was no murder."
The prevalence of this crime will be indicated by the following observations from the most reliable sources:--
"We know that in certain countries abortion is practiced in a manner almost public, without speaking of the East, where it has, so to speak, entered into the manners of the country. We see it in America, in a great city like New York, constituting a regular business and not prevented, where it has enriched more than one midwife."
"England does not yield to Germany or France in the frequency of the crime of infanticide."[32]
."Any statistics attainable are very incomplete. False certificates are daily given by attending physicians. Men, if they are only rich enough, die of 'congestion of the brain,' not 'delirium tremens;' and women, similarly situated, do not die from the effects of abortion, but of 'inflammation of the bowels,' etc."
"Infanticide, as it is generally considered (destroying a child after quickening), is of very rare occurrence in New York, whereas abortions (destroying the embryo before quickening) are of daily habit in the families of the best informed and most religious; among those abounding in wealth, as well as among the poor and needy."[33]
"Perhaps only medical men will credit the assertion that the frequency of this form of destroying human life exceeds all others by at least fifty per cent, and that not more than one in a thousand of the guilty parties receive any punishment by the hand of civil law. But there is a surer mode of punishment for the guilty mother in the self-executing laws of nature."[34]
"From a very large verbal and written correspondence in this and other States, I am satisfied that we have become a nation of murderers."[35]
Said a distinguished clergyman of Brooklyn in a sermon, "Why send missionaries to India when child-murder is here of daily, almost hourly, occurrence; aye, when the hand that puts money into the contribution-box to-day, yesterday or a month ago, or to-morrow, will murder her own unborn offspring?
"The Hindoo mother, when she abandons her babe upon the sacred Ganges, is, contrary to her heart, obeying a supposed religious law, and you desire to convert her to your own worship of the Moloch of Fashion and Laziness and love of Greed. Out upon such hypocrisy!"
Writers tell us that it has even become the boast of many women that they "know too much to have babies."
Says the learned Dr. Storer, "Will the time come, think ye, when husbands can no longer, as they now frequently do, commit the crime of rape upon their unwilling wives, and persuade them or compel them to allow a still more dreadful violence to be wreaked upon the children nestling within them—children fully alive from the very moment of conception, that have already been fully detached from all organic connection with their parent, and only re-attached to her for the purposes of nutriment and growth, and to destroy whom 'is a crime of the same nature, both against our Maker and society, as to destroy an infant, a child, or a man?'"[36]
"Is It I?" Says another well-known author, "Ladies boast to each other of the impunity with which they have aborted, as they do of their expenditures, of their dress, of their success in society. There is a fashion in this, as in all other female customs, good and bad. The wretch whose account with the Almighty is heaviest with guilt too often becomes a heroine."[37]
A Woman's Thoughts about Women.
Causes of the Crime.--
Many influences may combine to cause the mother ruthlessly to destroy her helpless child: as, to conceal the results of sin; to avoid the burdens of maternity; to secure ease and freedom to travel, etc., or even from a false idea that maternity is vulgar; but it is true, beyond all question, that the primary cause of the sin is far back of all these influences.
The most unstinted and scathing invectives are used in characterizing the criminality of a mother who takes the life of her unborn babe; but a word is seldom said of the one who forced upon her the circumstances which gave the unfortunate one existence.
Though doctors, ministers, and moralists have said much on this subject, and written more, it is reasonable to suppose that they will never accomplish much of anything in the direction of reform until they recognize the part the man acts in all of these sad cases, and begin to demand reform where it is most needed, and where its achievement will effect the most good.
As was observed in the remarks upon the subject of "Prevention of Conception," this evil has its origin in "marital excesses," and in a disregard of the natural law which makes the female the sole proprietor of her own body, and gives to her the right to refuse the approaches of the male when unprepared to receive them without doing violence to the laws of her being.
The Nature of the Crime.
"The married and well-to-do, who by means of medicines and operations produce abortions at early periods of pregnancy, have no excuse except the pretense that they do not consider it murder until the child quickens.
"No, not murder, you say, for 'there has not been any life in the child.' Do not attempt to evade, even to man, a crime which cannot be hidden from the All-seeing. The poor mother has not herself felt the life of the child perhaps, but that is a quibble only of the laws of man, founded indeed upon the view, now universally recognized as incorrect, that the child's life began when its movements were first strong enough to be perceptible.
There is, in fact, no moment after conception when it can be said that the child has not life, and the crime of destroying human life is as heinous and as sure before the period of 'quickening' has been attained as afterward.
But you still defend your horrible deed by saying, 'Well, if there be, as you say, this mere animal life, equivalent at the most to simple vitality, there is no mind, no soul destroyed, and therefore, there is no crime committed.' Just so surely as one would destroy and root out of existence all the fowl in the world by destroying all the eggs in existence, so certain is it that you do by your act destroy the animal man in the egg, and the soul which animates it. When is the period that intelligence comes to the infant? Are its feeble first strugglings any evidence of its presence? Has it any appreciable quantity at birth?
Has it any valuable, useful quantity even when a year old? When, then, is it, that destruction is harmless or comparatively sinless? While awaiting your metaphysical answer, I will tell you when it is sinful. Murder is always sinful, and murder is the willful destruction of a human being at any period of its existence, from its earliest germinal embryo to its final, simple, animal existence in aged decrepitude and complete mental imbecility."[38]
"There are those who would fain make light of this crime by attempting to convince themselves and others that a child, while in embryo, has only a sort of vegetative life, not yet endowed with thought, and the ability to maintain an independent existence. If such a monstrous philosophy as this presents any justification for such an act, then the killing of a newly-born infant, or of an idiot, may be likewise justified.
The destruction of the life of an unborn human being, for the reason that it is small, feeble, and innocently helpless, rather aggravates than palliates the crime. Every act of this kind, with its justification, is obviously akin to that savage philosophy which accounts it a matter of no moment, or rather a duty, to destroy feeble infants, or old, helpless fathers and mothers."[39]
Instruments of Crime.
"The means through which abortions are effected are various. Sometimes it is through potent drugs, extensively advertised in newspapers claiming to be moral!—the advertisements so adroitly worded as to convey under a caution the precise information required of the liability of the drug to produce miscarriages.
Sometimes the information is conveyed through secret circulars; but more commonly the deed is consummated by professed abortionists, who advertise themselves as such through innuendo, or through gaining this kind of repute by the frequent commission of the act. Not a few women, deterred by lingering modesty or some sense of shame, attempt and execute it upon themselves, and then volunteer to instruct and encourage others to go and do likewise."[40]
Results of this Unnatural Crime.
It is the universal testimony of physicians that the effects of abortion are almost as deadly upon the mother as upon the child. The amount of suffering is vastly greater; for that of the child, if it suffer at all, is only momentary, in general, while the mother is doomed to a life of suffering, of misery, if she survives the shock of the terrible outrage against her nature. It has been proved by statistics that the danger of immediate death is fifteen times as great as in natural childbirth.
A medical author of note asserts that a woman suffers more injury from one abortion than she would from twenty normal births. Says Dr. Gardner on this point:--
"We know that the popular idea is that women are worn out by the toil and wear connected with the raising of large families, and we can willingly concede something to this statement; but it is certainly far more observable that the efforts at the present day, made to avoid propagation, are ten thousand-fold more disastrous to the health and constitution, to say nothing of the demoralization of mind and heart, which cannot be estimated by red cheeks or physical vigor."
An Unwelcome Child.
But suppose the mother does not succeed in her attempts against the life of her child, as she may not; what fearful results may follow! Who can doubt that the murderous intent of the mother will be stamped indelibly upon the character of the unwelcome child, giving it a natural propensity for the commission of murderous deeds?
Then again—sickening thought—suppose the attempts to destroy the child are unsuccessful, resulting only in horrid mutilation of its tender form; when such a child is born, what terrible evidences may it bear in its crippled and misshapen body of the cruel outrage perpetrated upon it! That such cases do occur is certain from the following narrative, which we might confirm by others similar in character:--
"A lady, determined not to have any more children, went to a professed abortionist, and he attempted to effect the desired end by violence. With a pointed instrument the attempt was again and again made, but without the looked-for result. So vigorously was the effort made, that, astonished at no result being obtained, the individual stated that there must be some mistake, that the lady could not be pregnant, and refused to perform any further operations.
Partially from doubt and partially from fear, nothing further was attempted; and in due process of time the woman was delivered of an infant, shockingly mutilated, with one eye entirely put out, and the brain so injured that this otherwise robust child was entirely wanting in ordinary sense. This poor mother, it would seem, needs no future punishment for her sin. Ten years face to face with this poor idiot, whose imbecility was her direct work—has it not punished her sufficiently?"
The Remedy.
Whether this gigantic evil can ever be eradicated, is exceedingly doubtful. To effect its cure would be to make refined Christians out of brutal sensualists; to emancipate woman from the enticing, alluring slavery of fashion; to uproot false ideas of life and its duties,—in short, to revolutionize society. The crime is perpetrated in secret. Many times no one but the criminal herself is cognizant of the evil deed. Only occasionally do cases come near enough to the surface to be dimly discernible; hence the evident inefficiency of any civil legislation.
But the evil is a desperate one, and is increasing; shall no attempt be made to check the tide of crime and save the sufferers from both physical and spiritual perdition? An effort should be made, at least. Let every Christian raise the note of warning. From every Christian pulpit let the truth be spoken in terms too plain for misapprehension. Let those who are known to be guilty of this most revolting crime be looked upon as murderers, as they are; and let their real moral status be distinctly shown.
All of these means will do something to effect a reform; but the radical cure of the evil will only be found in the principles suggested in the section devoted to the consideration of "Marital Excesses." The adoption of those principles and strict adherence to them would effectually prevent the occurrence of circumstances which are the occasion of abortions and infanticides.
Murder by Proxy.
"There is, at the present time, a kind of infanticide, which, although it is not so well known, is even more dangerous, because done with impunity. There are parents who recoil with horror at the idea of destroying their offspring, although they would greatly desire to be disembarrassed of them, who yet place them without remorse with nurses who enjoy the sinister reputation of never returning the children to those who have intrusted them to their care. These unfortunate little beings are condemned to perish from inanition and bad treatment.
"The number of these innocent victims is greater than would be imagined, and very certainly exceeds that of the marked infanticides sent by the public prosecutor to the Court of the Assizes."
by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg ... 1881
Few but medical men are aware of the enormous proportions which have been assumed by these terrible crimes during the present century. That they are increasing with fearful rapidity and have really reached such a magnitude as to seriously affect the growth of civilized nations, and to threaten their very existence, has become a patent fact to observing physicians. The crime itself differs little, in reality, from that considered in the last section, the prevention of conception. It is, in fact, the same crime postponed till a later period.
We quote the following eloquent words on this subject:--
"Of all the sins, physical and moral against man and God, I know of none so utterly to be condemned as the very common one of the destruction of the child while yet in the womb of the mother. So utterly repugnant is it that I can scarcely express the loathing with which I approach the subject.
Murder!—murder in cold blood, without cause, of an unknown child; one's nearest relative; in fact, part of one's very being; actually having, not only one's own blood in its being, but that blood momentarily interchanging! Good God! Does it seem possible that such depravity can exist in a parent's breast—in a mother's heart!
"'Tis for no wrong that it has committed that its sweet life is so cruelly taken away. Its coming is no disgrace; its creation was not in sin, but—its mother 'don't want to be bothered with any more brats; can hardly take care of what she has got; is going to Europe in the spring.'
"We can forgive the poor deluded girl—seduced, betrayed, abandoned—who, in her wild frenzy, destroys the mute evidence of her guilt. We have only sympathy and sorrow for her. But for the married shirk who disregards her divinely-ordained duty, we have nothing but contempt, even if she be the lordly woman of fashion, clothed in purple and fine linen. If glittering gems adorn her person, within there is foulness and squalor."[30]
Not a Modern Crime.
Although this crime has attained remarkable proportions in modern times, it is not a new one by any means, as the following paragraph will suffice to show:--
"Infanticide and exposure were also the custom among the Romans, Medes, Canaanites,
Babylonians, and other Eastern nations, with the exception of the Israelites and Egyptians. The Scandinavians killed their offspring from pure fantasy. The Norwegians, after having carefully swaddled their children, put some food into their mouths, placed them under the roots of trees or under the rocks to preserve them from ferocious beasts. Infanticide was also permitted among the Chinese, and we saw, during the last century, vehicles going round the streets of Pekin daily to collect the bodies of the dead infants.
Today there exist foundling hospitals to receive children abandoned by their parents.
The same custom is also observed in Japan, in the isles of the Southern Ocean, at Otaheite, and among several savage nations of North America. It is related of the Jaggers of Guinea, that they devour their own children."[31]
The Greeks practiced infanticide systematically, their laws at one time requiring the destruction of crippled or weakly children. Among all the various nations, the general object of the crime seems to have been to avoid the trouble of rearing the children, or to avoid a surplus, objects not far different from those had in view by those who practice the same crimes at the present time.
The destruction of the child after the mother has felt its movements is termed infanticide; before that time it is commonly known as abortion. It is a modern notion that the child possesses no soul or individual life until the period of quickening, an error which we have already sufficiently exposed.
The ancients, with just as much reason, contended that no distinct life was present until after birth. Hence it was that they could practice without scruple the crime of infanticide to prevent too great increase of population. "Plato and Aristotle were advocates of this practice, and these Stoics justified this monstrous practice by alleging that the child only acquired a soul at the moment when it ceased to have uterine life and commenced to respire. From hence it resulted that, the child not being animated, its destruction was no murder."
The prevalence of this crime will be indicated by the following observations from the most reliable sources:--
"We know that in certain countries abortion is practiced in a manner almost public, without speaking of the East, where it has, so to speak, entered into the manners of the country. We see it in America, in a great city like New York, constituting a regular business and not prevented, where it has enriched more than one midwife."
"England does not yield to Germany or France in the frequency of the crime of infanticide."[32]
."Any statistics attainable are very incomplete. False certificates are daily given by attending physicians. Men, if they are only rich enough, die of 'congestion of the brain,' not 'delirium tremens;' and women, similarly situated, do not die from the effects of abortion, but of 'inflammation of the bowels,' etc."
"Infanticide, as it is generally considered (destroying a child after quickening), is of very rare occurrence in New York, whereas abortions (destroying the embryo before quickening) are of daily habit in the families of the best informed and most religious; among those abounding in wealth, as well as among the poor and needy."[33]
"Perhaps only medical men will credit the assertion that the frequency of this form of destroying human life exceeds all others by at least fifty per cent, and that not more than one in a thousand of the guilty parties receive any punishment by the hand of civil law. But there is a surer mode of punishment for the guilty mother in the self-executing laws of nature."[34]
"From a very large verbal and written correspondence in this and other States, I am satisfied that we have become a nation of murderers."[35]
Said a distinguished clergyman of Brooklyn in a sermon, "Why send missionaries to India when child-murder is here of daily, almost hourly, occurrence; aye, when the hand that puts money into the contribution-box to-day, yesterday or a month ago, or to-morrow, will murder her own unborn offspring?
"The Hindoo mother, when she abandons her babe upon the sacred Ganges, is, contrary to her heart, obeying a supposed religious law, and you desire to convert her to your own worship of the Moloch of Fashion and Laziness and love of Greed. Out upon such hypocrisy!"
Writers tell us that it has even become the boast of many women that they "know too much to have babies."
Says the learned Dr. Storer, "Will the time come, think ye, when husbands can no longer, as they now frequently do, commit the crime of rape upon their unwilling wives, and persuade them or compel them to allow a still more dreadful violence to be wreaked upon the children nestling within them—children fully alive from the very moment of conception, that have already been fully detached from all organic connection with their parent, and only re-attached to her for the purposes of nutriment and growth, and to destroy whom 'is a crime of the same nature, both against our Maker and society, as to destroy an infant, a child, or a man?'"[36]
"Is It I?" Says another well-known author, "Ladies boast to each other of the impunity with which they have aborted, as they do of their expenditures, of their dress, of their success in society. There is a fashion in this, as in all other female customs, good and bad. The wretch whose account with the Almighty is heaviest with guilt too often becomes a heroine."[37]
A Woman's Thoughts about Women.
Causes of the Crime.--
Many influences may combine to cause the mother ruthlessly to destroy her helpless child: as, to conceal the results of sin; to avoid the burdens of maternity; to secure ease and freedom to travel, etc., or even from a false idea that maternity is vulgar; but it is true, beyond all question, that the primary cause of the sin is far back of all these influences.
The most unstinted and scathing invectives are used in characterizing the criminality of a mother who takes the life of her unborn babe; but a word is seldom said of the one who forced upon her the circumstances which gave the unfortunate one existence.
Though doctors, ministers, and moralists have said much on this subject, and written more, it is reasonable to suppose that they will never accomplish much of anything in the direction of reform until they recognize the part the man acts in all of these sad cases, and begin to demand reform where it is most needed, and where its achievement will effect the most good.
As was observed in the remarks upon the subject of "Prevention of Conception," this evil has its origin in "marital excesses," and in a disregard of the natural law which makes the female the sole proprietor of her own body, and gives to her the right to refuse the approaches of the male when unprepared to receive them without doing violence to the laws of her being.
The Nature of the Crime.
"The married and well-to-do, who by means of medicines and operations produce abortions at early periods of pregnancy, have no excuse except the pretense that they do not consider it murder until the child quickens.
"No, not murder, you say, for 'there has not been any life in the child.' Do not attempt to evade, even to man, a crime which cannot be hidden from the All-seeing. The poor mother has not herself felt the life of the child perhaps, but that is a quibble only of the laws of man, founded indeed upon the view, now universally recognized as incorrect, that the child's life began when its movements were first strong enough to be perceptible.
There is, in fact, no moment after conception when it can be said that the child has not life, and the crime of destroying human life is as heinous and as sure before the period of 'quickening' has been attained as afterward.
But you still defend your horrible deed by saying, 'Well, if there be, as you say, this mere animal life, equivalent at the most to simple vitality, there is no mind, no soul destroyed, and therefore, there is no crime committed.' Just so surely as one would destroy and root out of existence all the fowl in the world by destroying all the eggs in existence, so certain is it that you do by your act destroy the animal man in the egg, and the soul which animates it. When is the period that intelligence comes to the infant? Are its feeble first strugglings any evidence of its presence? Has it any appreciable quantity at birth?
Has it any valuable, useful quantity even when a year old? When, then, is it, that destruction is harmless or comparatively sinless? While awaiting your metaphysical answer, I will tell you when it is sinful. Murder is always sinful, and murder is the willful destruction of a human being at any period of its existence, from its earliest germinal embryo to its final, simple, animal existence in aged decrepitude and complete mental imbecility."[38]
"There are those who would fain make light of this crime by attempting to convince themselves and others that a child, while in embryo, has only a sort of vegetative life, not yet endowed with thought, and the ability to maintain an independent existence. If such a monstrous philosophy as this presents any justification for such an act, then the killing of a newly-born infant, or of an idiot, may be likewise justified.
The destruction of the life of an unborn human being, for the reason that it is small, feeble, and innocently helpless, rather aggravates than palliates the crime. Every act of this kind, with its justification, is obviously akin to that savage philosophy which accounts it a matter of no moment, or rather a duty, to destroy feeble infants, or old, helpless fathers and mothers."[39]
Instruments of Crime.
"The means through which abortions are effected are various. Sometimes it is through potent drugs, extensively advertised in newspapers claiming to be moral!—the advertisements so adroitly worded as to convey under a caution the precise information required of the liability of the drug to produce miscarriages.
Sometimes the information is conveyed through secret circulars; but more commonly the deed is consummated by professed abortionists, who advertise themselves as such through innuendo, or through gaining this kind of repute by the frequent commission of the act. Not a few women, deterred by lingering modesty or some sense of shame, attempt and execute it upon themselves, and then volunteer to instruct and encourage others to go and do likewise."[40]
Results of this Unnatural Crime.
It is the universal testimony of physicians that the effects of abortion are almost as deadly upon the mother as upon the child. The amount of suffering is vastly greater; for that of the child, if it suffer at all, is only momentary, in general, while the mother is doomed to a life of suffering, of misery, if she survives the shock of the terrible outrage against her nature. It has been proved by statistics that the danger of immediate death is fifteen times as great as in natural childbirth.
A medical author of note asserts that a woman suffers more injury from one abortion than she would from twenty normal births. Says Dr. Gardner on this point:--
"We know that the popular idea is that women are worn out by the toil and wear connected with the raising of large families, and we can willingly concede something to this statement; but it is certainly far more observable that the efforts at the present day, made to avoid propagation, are ten thousand-fold more disastrous to the health and constitution, to say nothing of the demoralization of mind and heart, which cannot be estimated by red cheeks or physical vigor."
An Unwelcome Child.
But suppose the mother does not succeed in her attempts against the life of her child, as she may not; what fearful results may follow! Who can doubt that the murderous intent of the mother will be stamped indelibly upon the character of the unwelcome child, giving it a natural propensity for the commission of murderous deeds?
Then again—sickening thought—suppose the attempts to destroy the child are unsuccessful, resulting only in horrid mutilation of its tender form; when such a child is born, what terrible evidences may it bear in its crippled and misshapen body of the cruel outrage perpetrated upon it! That such cases do occur is certain from the following narrative, which we might confirm by others similar in character:--
"A lady, determined not to have any more children, went to a professed abortionist, and he attempted to effect the desired end by violence. With a pointed instrument the attempt was again and again made, but without the looked-for result. So vigorously was the effort made, that, astonished at no result being obtained, the individual stated that there must be some mistake, that the lady could not be pregnant, and refused to perform any further operations.
Partially from doubt and partially from fear, nothing further was attempted; and in due process of time the woman was delivered of an infant, shockingly mutilated, with one eye entirely put out, and the brain so injured that this otherwise robust child was entirely wanting in ordinary sense. This poor mother, it would seem, needs no future punishment for her sin. Ten years face to face with this poor idiot, whose imbecility was her direct work—has it not punished her sufficiently?"
The Remedy.
Whether this gigantic evil can ever be eradicated, is exceedingly doubtful. To effect its cure would be to make refined Christians out of brutal sensualists; to emancipate woman from the enticing, alluring slavery of fashion; to uproot false ideas of life and its duties,—in short, to revolutionize society. The crime is perpetrated in secret. Many times no one but the criminal herself is cognizant of the evil deed. Only occasionally do cases come near enough to the surface to be dimly discernible; hence the evident inefficiency of any civil legislation.
But the evil is a desperate one, and is increasing; shall no attempt be made to check the tide of crime and save the sufferers from both physical and spiritual perdition? An effort should be made, at least. Let every Christian raise the note of warning. From every Christian pulpit let the truth be spoken in terms too plain for misapprehension. Let those who are known to be guilty of this most revolting crime be looked upon as murderers, as they are; and let their real moral status be distinctly shown.
All of these means will do something to effect a reform; but the radical cure of the evil will only be found in the principles suggested in the section devoted to the consideration of "Marital Excesses." The adoption of those principles and strict adherence to them would effectually prevent the occurrence of circumstances which are the occasion of abortions and infanticides.
Murder by Proxy.
"There is, at the present time, a kind of infanticide, which, although it is not so well known, is even more dangerous, because done with impunity. There are parents who recoil with horror at the idea of destroying their offspring, although they would greatly desire to be disembarrassed of them, who yet place them without remorse with nurses who enjoy the sinister reputation of never returning the children to those who have intrusted them to their care. These unfortunate little beings are condemned to perish from inanition and bad treatment.
"The number of these innocent victims is greater than would be imagined, and very certainly exceeds that of the marked infanticides sent by the public prosecutor to the Court of the Assizes."
by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg ... 1881
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