Month: October 2019

In this episode we conclude our series of episodes responding to John Iriving’s article in the New York Times. We demonstrate how Dr. Horatio Storer’s writings and campaigns influenced state legislatures to criminalize abortion by making the law consistent with advances in science and medicine. We see how the laws against abortion strengthened, but then began to scale back as the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century ranked the worth of one life against another. We examine some quotes from Margaret Sanger, the founder of abortion provider Planned Parenthood that show the strong eugenics mindset behind the origins of abortion as a means of population control and engineering.Sources Cited:“The Long, Cruel History of the Anti-Abortion Crusade”https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/opinion/anti-abortion-history.htmlMargaret Sanger, “High Lights

This episode begins to demonstrate from American history in the 1800’s that the medical conspiracy that John Irving wants us to believe outlawed abortion was no conspiracy at all. It was simply the reconciliation of science and medicine with law. We look at the influence of Dr. Horatio Storer in shaping the landscape of abortion thought in the the 1850’s and 1860’s by doing what Mr. Irving seems to avoid: we actually his words instead of assuming a sinister motive.Sources Cited:“The Long, Cruel History of the Anti-Abortion Crusade”https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/opinion/anti-abortion-history.html“Report on Criminal Abortion”https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/ext/mhl/101218760/PDF/101218760.pdfWhy Not? A Book For Every Womanhttps://ia800207.us.archive.org/13/items/whynotabookfore00storgoog/whynotabookfore00storgoog.pdf“Dr. Horatio Storer (1830-1922)”https://thesexualityandsocialmedia.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/dr-horatio-r-storer-1830-1922/Silent No More Awareness Campaignhttps://www.silentnomoreawareness.org*****Like what you hear? Donate to Truthspresso and give a shot of support!*****

In this episode we continue to respond to John Irving’s article from the New York Times that laments the fact that some people believe that babies in the womb should not be killed intentionally. We examine Mr. Irving’s strange assessment of abortion law in America in the 1800’s. Mr. Irving apparently believes that a bunch of doctors managed to conspire together for the selfish reason of wanting to control women’s “reproductive rights.” Allegedly getting abortion outlawed was part of their agenda to create a monopoly over health care. Somehow they managed to convince the governments in all states of the United States in a very brief time to grant them the power they desperately wanted.We use some basic common sense

In this episode we continue to respond to John Irving’s article from the New York Times that attempts to prove that the pro-life idea that human life from conception deserves not to be killed is a recent innovation in the United States. Irving attempts to argue that early colonial America was friendly to abortion during the time of the Puritans.We examine this premise by doing what Irving doesn’t do in his article–prove his assertion by actually citing sources. We look at three court records from colonial America that prove that abortion before “quickening” was still considered “murder” and a felony. Then, we ask the questions about why abortifacient advertisements seemed to abound in the early 1800’s.Sources Cited:“The Long, Cruel History