Tea at Trianon: Origins of Planned Parenthood

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

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Origins of Planned Parenthood

From John Zmirak at The Stream:

Okay, to summarize so far: An influential strain of Spiritualism, to which Sanger was exposed by her long friendship with Havelock Ellis, taught that pregnant women can mold their unborn children. If women in distress, poverty, or believers in “reactionary” religions such as Christianity have children, those babies will be marked by their negative spirits. Hence the need for eugenics.

But if women of a “superior” sort, in contact with “advanced” spirits reproduce, they can produce a “higher” sort of child. A super-race, if you will. What advanced spirits would in fact be available for such a procedure? Certainly not the angels obedient to God. When occultists summon spirits, spirits often do answer. Ones with names like “Moloch,” “Belial,” and “Mammon.”

This Spiritualist claim makes sense of Sanger’s otherwise murky promises that unleashing our sexual energies can produce a race of virtual gods on earth, inhabiting a worldly paradise. Schwab find an apposite quote of Sanger’s to illustrate this:
When the womb becomes fruitful through the desire of an aspiring love, another Newton will come forth to unlock further the secrets of the earth and the stars. There will come a Plato who will be understood, a Socrates who will drink no hemlock, and a Jesus who will not die upon the cross. These and the race that is to be in America await upon a motherhood that is to be sacred because it is free.
Of course, such power to remake the human race comes at a price. The price is sacrifice, blood-sacrifice of “inferior” children who must be destroyed. Schwab offers more citations to prove this point:
So in a very real sense, in the message of Margaret Sanger, the aborted fetus was a sacrifice that would allow for the manifestation of “new woman”, and the incarnation of an inverted Christ figure. In Woman and the New Race, Sanger openly argues for the universality of infanticide and child sacrifice as “the efforts of the feminine spirit to liberate itself”, literally using Canaanite and pagan Greek societies as an example. She speaks constantly of the peculiar “feminine spirit” whose need for infanticide and fetecide was an implacable expression of its nature. She plays coy, writing of a “secret order” of radicals and repeatedly frames women who have abortions as “martyrs” who were “making a sacrifice”, hinting at the unspoken belief that murder of the fetus is a sacrament.
Which is exactly what the Temple of Satan is asserting today, in formal legal briefs submitted to U.S. courts, claiming that abortion is a religious rite, protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. (Read more.)