Abortion and medical assistant death (suicide) are not new. The history for both is very long and I will try to bring some of it to bare in future writing.
Socrates has been convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens and introducing strange gods, and has been sentenced to die by drinking poison Hemlock.. Socrates uses his death as a final lesson for his pupils rather than fleeing when the opportunity arises, and faces it calmly. Wikipedia
Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. Wikipedia
Medical assistance in dying is a most recent addition to the never-ending control of human existence. I’ve chosen the most recent attempt by man to control who in the population are deemed expendable either by choice or as a benefit to society by the execution of undesirables such as murderers; Canada does not permit the death penalty . Yet it will allow people to terminate their lives by request. It has put on hold the death of those who are deemed mentally ill, and choose death. How did we get here?
One can explore the rapid change in society during the late 1800s on through the 1900s. The following will try to give an overview of North America and the transition between the 1800s and 1900s. North America and the world went from an agricultural society to a mostly industrial society over the 1800s and the early 19th century and continue today. One can Google these changes by writing a Line “Transition from Agricultural to Industrialization in America” on Google. The transition from farming to industrialization in North America has so many different facets that one can spend a lifetime reading about them. It was also a worldwide phenomenon that brought innovations, prosperity and poverty and all the abuses that are included in these two words. This was the age of Enlightenment and for all it’s worth the age of abuse and absurdity. The social costs to society are still being felt to this day.
I would’ve started out with abortion as it is my main thought about how women have come to believe that it is the right of every American woman to have a medical assistant abortion at no expense to them. “It was the best of times it was a worst of times” but it was the time of Enlightenment and industrialization which brought both the best and worst.
The quote is from Dickens a tale of two cities published in 1859.The article below comes from those supposedly enlightened; Margaret Higgins Sanger was a believer in eugenics. I will leave it to the individual to discern how much eugenics played into the desire to free women from babies.
Nature’s Secrets Revealed
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF
THE LAWS OF SEX LIFE and HEREDITY OR EUGENICS
Vital Information for the Married and Marriageable of All Ages;
a Word at the Right Time to the Boy, Girl, Young Man,
Young Woman, Husband,Wife, Father and Mother;
Also, Timely Help, Comisel and Instruction
for Every Member of Every Home
TOGETHER WITH IMPORTANT HINTS ON
SOCIAL PURITY, HEREDITY, PHYSICAL MANHOOD AND WOMANHOOD
BY NOTED SPECIALISTS
Embracing a Department on Ethics of the Unmarried
by PROFESSOR T. W. SHANNON, A. M.
International Lecturer; Editor Eugenics Department, Uplift Magazine; President Single
Standard Eugenic Movement; Author of Self-Knowledge, Perfect Manhood,
Perfect Womanhood, Heredity Explained, Guide to Sex Instruction, etc.
INTRODUCED BY BISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS, D. D., LL. D.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT BY W. J. TRUITT, M. D.
Formerly Associate Professor of Obstetrics, National Medical College, Chicago,
Assisted by Celebrated Specialists
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED PUBLISHED BY THE S. A. MULLIKIN COMPANY MULLIKIN BUILDING
MARIETTA, – – – OHIO1916
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE S. A. MULLIKIN COMPANY
All rights reserved Copyright, 1915, by y011 S. A. DIULLIKIN COMPANY CopyrJght, 1914, by THE S. A. MULLIKIN COMPANY Copyright, 1911. by THE S. A. Mui,rmils COMPANY Copyright, 1904, by Mummy JENKINS L CO,
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
Near the close of a life devoted to the study and solution of the problems of intemperance, Frances E. Willard said, “‘We will never solve the problems of intemperance until children are better born.” She could have added with equal emphasis, “We will never solve the problems of crime, feeblemindedness, and the social evil until children are better born.” We will never empty the jails, reformatories, penitentiaries and insane asylums by legislation.
The nation is at last aroused to the fact that human life, the most sacred of all life, depends upon the proper teaching of sex life and the science of eugenics.
“The spirit of society in the past and the attitude of our government,” observes Prof. Shannon, the noted author who contributes an important department to this volume, has been “To protect our forests, inspect our swine and neglect our children.” This attitude to the inherent right of children to be well born, is largely responsible for nearly half of the states being compelled to double the capacity of the penal and feebleminded institutions in comparative recent years.
Physical, mental and moral degenerates are increasing out of proportion to the increase of normal classes. Crime among children is increasing two and one-half times faster than among adults.
The universal demand of the day is to raise the standard of human life; to develop wise parenthood; and to fit young people for the duties and responsibilities of raising the standard of life in future generations.
Children should be taught at an early age the sacredness of the human body. Ignorance is largely responsible for immorality and the double standard of morals. The evils of ignorance in the marriage relation are so great that to encourage or even allow young people to marry without instruction is criminal. These sacred and vital truths need to be presented as a part of the general education of every child.
To properly inaugurate the true standard of social purity, we must first recognize that “The truth and facts about sex laws and hygiene are the foundation upon which this nation must build for the future.”
This volume has been prepared to meet the demands of the hour. It is an answer to the call of the times; a book with a purpose. It is first of all a guide to parents to a proper knowledge of themselves, that they may in turn be prepared to instruct the younger generation intelligently; also the right word at the right time to all ages along lines of eugenics, sex hygiene, purity, health, character building and success.
This volume is sent forth on its mission of usefulness to the human race with implicit faith that it means intelligent guidance to the married and marriageable, the safeguarding of youth, wherever it goes and that thousands of homes will be made happier and brighter and the world a better plate to live because of the enlightenment, help,’ counsel, advice, warning and instruction received from its pages.
Marietta, Ohio, April 10, 1915. THE PUBLISHERS.
