Tea at Trianon: Schumer, The Price Is Already Being Paid

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

Monday, March 16, 2020

Schumer, The Price Is Already Being Paid

From Reclaiming Our Children:

The truth is the price has already been paid, but not by the Supreme Court justices. The price has been paid by countless women physically harmed by the abortion industry. Although cloaked by availability of accurate statistics, the denial of abortions harm and many times the secrecy and shame of those who have experienced abortion, countless numbers of women are paying a steep price.

For the past twenty years I have been working with women hurt by abortion. I have also experienced abortion. Some unfortunately were never able to have other children. Women are also at risk of a host of physical complications such as a perforated uterus, infection, incomplete abortion and organ damage to name just a few, and this does not even take in to account the psychological aspect. Depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and at times even suicide.

Sure, there are women who say they are fine, do not regret and are even grateful for their abortions. So be it, but does that mean the availability of medical care in the event of an emergency should be denied to someone who may need it? This case has nothing to do with the legality of abortion. If anything, this court case shows what many of us who have experienced abortion found out the hard way to be true, abortion is not about the health care of women or their safety, it is about big business.

New York’s Margaret Sanger Planned Parenthood has hospitalized 13 women in the past year. As recently as February 7th a woman was taken out on a gurney to a waiting ambulance, and yet all Schumer and those protesting can think about is access to abortion. Where is their outrage concerning these women? (Read more.)