Tea at Trianon: Standing up for Mothers

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Standing up for Mothers

Real men do not allow their children to be aborted. Cheryl Dickow offers some compelling thoughts.

A mother who cannot feed her children needs our help. She should not be in a situation where she sees abortion as an option. We should not be creating a nation in which a mother — regardless of her age and circumstances — feels that killing her child is the best of all alternatives. But regardless of her feelings, our nation cannot continue to allow this legal murder.

There was recently an article in USA Today about how each side (pro-death and pro-life) would be ahead if the number of abortions was at least reduced. The argument was presented in such a way that a little win-win was better than nothing at all.

Having looked at those babies whose lives were snatched during the most vulnerable of times, I am certain that even one abortion is far too many and that no one wins when a baby’s life is taken. Too many mothers have had to wake the hard way to that sad reality. Thank God for the men who know it and who stand up for mothers.

MadMonarchist said...: I always thought it grossly unfair that men have no say in whether or not their children are aborted -there's no "allowing" in it. Of course, if the mother decides to have the baby the father has to pay child support (and rightly so) because it is *his* child too. Yet, if the mother decides to abort the baby it is suddenly *her* body and *her* choice and can be done without the consent or even knowledge of the father. It doesn't seem like one would have to agree on the abortion issue or not to see the injustice there.; May 9, 2010 at 2:24:00 AM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Excellent point, MM!; May 9, 2010 at 9:42:00 AM EDT
Julygirl said...: I believe God is allowing our Country to suffer in many ways due to its stand on Abortion.; May 9, 2010 at 1:38:00 PM EDT