Chapter 30: Titanica

This and that from the American left and right has left me feeling America should change its name to Titanica. 

A ten-year-old Ohio girl, made pregnant by rape when she was nine, was sent by her Ohio doctor to Indiana, where she was able to get an abortion. The American Right said it was a hoax. When it turned out not to be a hoax, the American Right assailed the girl’s doctors. When it came out that the rapist was an immigrant, the American Right made that their main focus. There were cries that the young girl should have been forced to have the baby. Not once did I see the American Right demonstrate any love or compassion for the young girl. I concluded the American Right are not human, but are subhuman.

A Phoenix, Arizona man persuaded an Arizona state court judge to appoint him Executor of the estate of the fetus his third wife had medically aborted after he sued her for divorce and ended their marriage. As Executor, he was granted legal standing to file a wrongful death case against the abortion providers.

RONNY REYES FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 13:43 EDT, 15 July 2022 | UPDATED: 20:52 EDT, 15 July 2022

An Arizona judge says a man may begin establishing an estate on behalf of an aborted fetus so he can sue a clinic for terminating his third wife's pregnancy. 

Mario Villegas, 41, was allowed to establish an estate for the embryo, dubbed 'Baby Villegas,' in order to sue Jackrabbit Family Medicine Inc. and Camelback Family Planning, which carried out an abortion for ex-wife Meagan in 2018. 

Villegas, a U.S. Marine veteran who accompanied Meagan during the procedure and consultations, claimed doctors failed to properly inform her of the health risks of an abortion, as well as not telling his ex-wife about the 'satisfaction' that comes with being a mother.

I concluded the ex-marine and the judge are not human, but are subhuman.

A while back, the Saudi Crown Prince had a journalist, who had criticized him, killed and chopped up into small pieces. I concluded the Crown Prince was subhuman.

President Joe Biden said he would make the Crown Prince a pariah. 

Biden followed through last week, by taking a large entourage of American officials to Saudi Arabia, where they all bumped-fists, smiled at and kissed the the international terrorist's ass, hoping he will sell America more oil.

I concluded shit birds of a feather flock together.

In my youth and early so-called manhood, I played a lot of golf and was a fairly good player during some stretches, but in the end, my swing was unreliable, and my back was ailing, and I gave up the game, which the novella Golf in the Kingdom called an X-ray of the soul. 

Then along came the Australian legend golfer Greg Norman, who had made a financial deal with the Saudis to back a new golf tour. I had to wonder if Greg would have done that if 9/11 had occurred in Sydney or Melbourne, instead of in New York City? 

What do you think?

Fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 terrorists were Saudis. 

When 9/11 occurred, America closed its borders, so that no one could leave - unless they were members of the Saudi Royal Family, hanging out in their Los Vegas casino hotel. 

The new golf tour, LIV, offered high profile professional golfers so much money that they would never have to work again, if they didn’t want to. Quite a few of those high profile golfers went for it. About half of them, perhaps, were Americans.

Donald Trump, financially bailed out twice by a different Saudi prince, owns golf courses in Ireland and Florida, which made deals to host two LIV events.

The POLITICO article below was in my Apple news feed this very morning. After reading it, I wondered how many 9/11 survivor families voted for Donald Trump in 2016, and will vote for him in 2024?

Trump world reaches out to 9/11 families on eve of their LIV golf protest

Protests are planned for the tournament to be held at Bedminster this coming week.

Dozens of family members and survivors of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack will head to former President Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf club next week to protest the controversial Saudi-backed LIV Golf event there.

Brett Eagleson, a founder of the group 9/11 Justice, told POLITICO the group will hold a press conference on Friday morning down the street from the exclusive club. Trump’s Bedminster is the site of the next big event for the Saudi Arabian-funded golf series. And Eagleson’s group hopes to call attention to the Saudi government’s connections to 9/11 and call out the 48-man field heading to the tourney — which includes stars like Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson — for “choosing to take Saudi payouts and look the other way on the country’s human rights abuses and role in the worst terrorist attacks on American soil.”

According to Eagleson, over a hundred 9/11 victim families and survivors are expected to attend the protest. They will, in addition, have the support of members of Congress like Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), though it’s unclear if any lawmaker is able to show up in person.

The protest places yet another unfavorable spotlight on what has become a source of sharp criticism for Trump. His and his family's ties to the Saudis and his association with LIV has come against the backdrop of a renewed push for the U.S. to more fully distance itself from the country over its human rights record. President Joe Biden himself faced recent criticism for visiting Saudi Arabia after vowing to make the nation a “pariah.”

Trump appears to understand the sensitivity too. Eagleson, whose father, John Bruce Eagleson died in the South Tower on Sept. 11, said a representative for Trump personally called him yesterday in response to a letter his group sent relaying its “deep pain and anger” over the decision to host two different inaugural LIV golf events.

The aide, according to Eagleson, said Trump had read their letter, and told Eagleson “9/11 is really near and dear to him and it’s so important to him he is going to remember everyone who signed the letter and he personally told this individual to reach out.”

But, Eagleson said, it was of “little to no value.”

“My response is, if it was so important to him why did he tell you to call me, why didn't he call himself?” he added. “[The aide] just kept repeating the same talking points, one being that the contract is binding and there is no way out of it. And when I pressed on when [the contract] was signed, she said she didn't know and just continued to say that the President was flattered with the letter, which was a weird thing to say, since it was not a very flattering letter. It called him a hypocrite essentially.”

In addition to the letter, 9/11 Justice has also requested a meeting with Trump ahead of the tournament to express their concerns and discuss Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 attacks. The group is particularly focused on showing the public a clear connection between the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Saudi government. They point to newly declassified documents related to the U.S. government’s investigation of the attacks and suspected official Saudi support for the hijackers as providing clear evidence of the nation’s role that day. Fifteen of the 19 al Qaeda terrorists who hijacked planes on 9/11 were Saudi nationals.

The group’s letter to Trump noted that he himself blamed Saudi Arabia for the attack during a 2016 interview on Fox News.

The Trump Organization did not respond to a request for comment.

The tournament that is set to kick off on Friday at Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster is LIV’s second U.S event. The tour is backed by the Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund that is chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who U.S. intel has blamed for the gruesome death of a Washington Post columnist. It has not been without controversy since its inception. Critics of the LIV Invitational Series say it is an attempt by the Saudis to “sports-wash” their record on human rights.

And the golf series has split the golf community too, pitting the PGA against LIV, which is being led by golf legend Greg Norman. Pro golfers who have decided to join LIV — reportedly accepting as much as $200 million in signing bonuses — have been suspended from PGA Tour events, though are still permitted to participate in the four yearly major tournaments.

Trump responded to that ban on Truth Social, and encouraged pro golfers to go ahead and join LIV.

“All of those golfers that remain ‘loyal’ to the very disloyal PGA, in all of its different forms, will pay a big price when the inevitable MERGER with LIV comes, and you get nothing but a big ‘thank you’ from PGA officials who are making Millions of Dollars a year,” Trump said on his social media platform. “If you don’t take the money now, you will get nothing after the merger takes place, and only say how smart the original signees were.”

Trump’s decision to host the LIV series at two of his clubs (Doral in Miami will host the other) comes after the PGA decided days after the Jan. 6 riots on Capitol Hill to terminate an agreement to play the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster.

9/11 Justice isn’t the only advocacy group planning to protest the golf event next weekend. 9/11 Families United, led by Terry Strada, the widow of 9/11 victim Tom Strada, have also planned a press conference set to take place at the Clarence Dillon Public Library in Bedminster on Tuesday morning.

Eagleson said 9/11 families have been “beside ourselves” over Trump’s decision.

“We can’t imagine that the president, knowing what he knows and with his history on this, would host and facilitate the Saudi government have this tournament literally 50 miles from ground zero in a state where 750 were murdered,” said Eagleson.

I concluded shit birds of a feather flock together.

As I watch the not even remotely disguised effort by Trump, the Republican Party and the entire America Right, including five United States Supreme Court Justices, and every red state, to make America a right-wing Christian Caliphate modeled after Saudi Arabia.

As I watch many Americans of note and of common circumstances say there is no way in hell Trump will be president again! 

In 2016, I watched many Americans of note and of common circumstances say there was no way in hell Trump will be elected!

As I read online and see on CNN that Trump will be in prison over January 6, 2020, by the time of the 2024 presidential election. 

Do you bet your life and your soul the US Department of Justice can pick a jury of Trump's peers, which will convict him?

As I read online that Trump won’t run in 2024, because he is afraid he will be prosecuted and put in prison if he does run then? 

Do you think Trump fears being prosecuted? Can you imagine how much money he will make by asking for legal defense donations?

As I read online that the Republican Party will ditch Trump and run Trump's vice-president Mike Pence or Florida governor Ron DeSantis in 2024. 

Do you think either man will stand a chance against the Democrat candidate, without Donald Trump and his MAGA horde' votes?

As I hear on the grapevine that the Democrat Mullahs have decided to wait until 2024 to prosecute Trump, hoping that, and a new Democrat president and vice-president candidate - goodbye Joe and Kamala - will keep the Democrats in control of the White House, and, hopefully, the US Senate and House of Representatives. Can you imagine how much money Trump will make off of that?

People who actually know me, know I am a political independent and do not belong to any religion. They know I hammered Barack Obama, when he was president. They know I hammered Hillary Clinton, when she ran against Trump in 2016. They know I hammered Trump in 2016. They know I said Trump and Hillary should both be locked up, in adjoining cells. I said it many times. 

As a lawyer raised as a Southern Baptist, then as an Episcopalian, I knew just how Titanic it would be for Trump to get elected and appoint right-wing Christian US Supreme Court Justices and federal judges.

So, when I look at the sorry mess that is America after four years of Trump, who is making fortunes off his political Game of Thrones; who is no more worried about being tried and convicted than the Saudi Crown prince is worried about being tried and convicted; who will promise during his 2024 campaign to pardon anyone the Democrat-controlled government prosecuted and convicted; who recently promised to fire and replace every US Government employee, who is not a Trump loyalist ...

I think Trump will be the next US President, unless something unexpected happens.

Once again in the White House, Trump will do everything possible to make himself King of America, unless something unexpected happens.

What do I mean by unexpected?

I mean, Trump has a massive stroke and cannot function as subhuman any longer. 

I mean Trump has a massive heart attack and he dies. 

I mean Trump is abducted by aliens and never heard from again. 

I mean Trump wakes up one morning, after being visited in his sleep by Jesus Christ. 

Trump runs out of the White House stark naked, carrying a Bible raised high in one hand, screaming there are no fig leaves in paradise, nor any secrets! It is more blessed to give than to receive! He has seen the light. 

Trump resigns as president, gives all his money to the poor, and becomes a Franciscan monk street preacher in Washington, D.C.

A south Alabama amiga shared this poem with me in 2019.

Pigs in mud 

 

All want the security of the well fed pig.

Horror at the baseness unrecognized.

A lifetime spent in shirt stuffing.

And pen comparison.

Is truth more palatable when honeyed?

Is a stark soulscape less so with the eyes of Monet?

May my affectations always be known and understood.

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com

Chapter 29: Legal Argument - American women have unalienable Right to use herbs made by Nature and Nature's God to prevent and end pregnancy

I saw an online news report yesterday that President Joe Biden will use his executive order power to allow the federal government to assist women affected by the recent overturn of Roe v. Wade.

I read in an online Wall Street Journal this morning, that lawsuits are being filed in some state courts, asserting abortion is protected by those states' constitutions. As this Alabama lawyer pondered the legal arguments in the Times article, I thought there are stronger legal arguments for abortion that have not been used.

I think American lawyers and judges can easily prove herbal abortion was endemic in Colonial America. Herbal abortion was part and parcel of the fabric of Colonial America society. Herbal abortion was a natural right Colonial women possessed, which they continued to possess after the Declaration of Independence was signed, and the Revolutionary War was fought, and the United States Constitution was written and passed into law by Congress.

Consider, Ben Franklin's book, The American Instructor, published in 1748, described how Colonial America used and could use Mother Nature's herbs to prevent and end pregnancy. 

Franklin's book was the topic of a  May 28, 2002 NPR interview.

Here's a link to that interview:

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/16/1099244635/for-ben-franklin-abortion-was-basic-arithmetic

Excerpts from the transcript of that interview:

NPR's Emily Feng speaks with Molly Farrell from The Ohio State University on why Ben Franklin included instructions for at-home abortions in his reference book, The American Instructor.

EMILY FENG, HOST:

Bear with me as we go back in time, way back to Philadelphia in 1748. Benjamin Franklin put quill to paper that year, so to speak, adapting a popular British math textbook for the American colonies. He told readers his goal was to update the book with matters, quote, "more immediately useful to Americans." Among those matters, the founding father added a clear and easy-to-follow guide for an at-home abortion drawn from a medical pamphlet written by a doctor in Virginia. So how does that square with a leaked Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, specifically the contention that, quote, "a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the nation's histories and traditions"?

Molly Farrell studies early American literature as an associate professor at the Ohio State University, which means she knows a lot about the nation's histories and traditions. She wrote about Franklin's abortion how-to for Slate and joins us now. Welcome, Molly.

MOLLY FARRELL: Thanks, Emily. It's great to be here.

FENG: Start by telling us a little bit about the original version of this textbook, which was called "The Instructor." What was in this book, and what was its purpose?

FARRELL: So "The Instructor" was by George Fisher, who is a pseudonym. We don't know who wrote it. It was a really popular catch-all manual published in London. I believe it went through eight or nine editions in London. And you could learn to read on it. It had the alphabet in it. It had basic arithmetic, recipes. And it had a how-to book on farriery, which is the care for horses' hooves.

So books were expensive at the time. And if you just had money to buy one or two books in your home, the Bible and maybe something else, this would be a great reference manual.

FENG: And Franklin saw this as useful for an American audience, but he wanted to make it more relevant for the colonies. What changes did he make to this textbook?

FARRELL: Yes. So he called it "The American Instructor." In the arithmetic section and the word problems, he changed the place names - made them Boston and Jamaica instead of London and Flanders. He added a little section on colonial history. And then the biggest change you can see from the title page is that he swapped out the big section on farriery and a medical textbook that was from London, and he inserted it with a Virginia medical handbook from 1734 called "Every Man His Own Doctor: The Poor Planter's Physician."

FENG: And what was in that section of the book?

FARRELL: So that's what I was most interested in. So I don't know if you grew up with these. You'd have a book around that just had, like, home remedies. You don't need to call your doctor for this. You can take care of it yourself. So I was looking at all the different entries in there, and there was one that was pretty long and pretty obvious. And it was called "For The Suppression Of The Courses." And I was reading this, and it comes right after entries for fever or dropsy. So those are - the entries were listed as problems that need to be solved. So fever, here's how to solve it. Gleet or gout, here's how to solve it. Suppression of the courses, here's how to solve it. And the word courses, from about the 15th to the 19th century - I looked in the dictionary - it means menses. So it means your period. So that's a missed period.

So I thought, OK, how do you solve the problem of a missed period? And it says this is a common complaint among unmarried women that they miss their period. And then it starts to prescribe basically all of the best-known herbal abortifacients and contraceptives that were circulating at the time. It's just sort of a greatest hits of what 18th-century herbalists would have given a woman who wanted to end a pregnancy early in her pregnancy. And that's what, by the way, this abortifacient recipe would really be for was really early. It talks about, like, make sure you start to take it a week before you expect to be out of order. So take it before you've even missed that period, and it will be most effective. So it's very explicit, very detailed, also very accurate for the time in terms of what was known at the time for how to end a pregnancy pretty early on.

And then at the end, it just really comes out swinging and lets you know this is definitely related to sex 'cause it says, you know, also women - you know, in order to prevent this complaint at the end - so prevention for next time - don't long for pretty fellows or any other trash whatsoever.

FENG: You write in your article for Slate that Ben Franklin's instructions for an at-home abortion were actually taken from a medical pamphlet that was written by someone else. That seems to suggest that this knowledge was quite common. How much other documentation out there do we have from this time about abortion?

FARRELL: That's a good question. I mean, so, you know, if you kind of were in the market in Philadelphia and some women were chatting, what were they talking about? And particularly when you think about herbal remedies and herbal remedies for, as it says, female infirmities in the book, that's going to be something that's even less likely to enter into print because we have - midwives are taking care of that. Women's literacy rates were lower. They're not writing medical textbooks, but they have all this knowledge.

So what John Tennant did, this Virginia handbook - he tried to make it a really American herbal. And one way that typically that was done was stealing herbal knowledge from indigenous people in Virginia and from enslaved Africans. A lot of early American scientists, that's where they got their knowledge, and then they put it into print and called it their own.

What's interesting about what Franklin did is that he made sure to find a very American and actually very detailed, very accurate, according to the time, and very explicit herbal remedy and then promote it. You know, he was platforming it, basically. He circulated it loudly. He appended it into a volume that he was saying, this is basically all the knowledge that every American should know. And you should know your reading. And you should know your writing. And you should know home remedies that include how to have an abortion if you need to.

FENG: If this knowledge about the, quote, "suppression of the courses" back then was just as commonplace then as learning how to add or to spell, then how was abortion conceptualized? Was it considered taboo?

FARRELL: Clearly for Benjamin Franklin, one of the architects of our nation, and for the people that bought his book, which went through reprintings all the way throughout the 18th century, "The American Instructor" was hugely popular. It was absolutely not taboo. This was not banned. We don't even have any records of people objecting to this. It didn't really bother anybody that a typical instructional manual could include material like this, could include - address explicitly to a female audience, making sure they had all the herbals available to them that their local midwife might have as well and just putting that right into print. It just wasn't something to be remarked upon. It was just a part of everyday life. 

 

Consider the first paragraph (Preamble) of the Declaration of Independence, signed 28 years after Ben Franklin's book was published.

In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.  

 

The Declaration specifically states its authority derives from Nature and Nature's God, which Created the herbs Colonial American women used to control their menses.

Consider the beginning of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--

 Women had no unalienable Rights? Seriously? 

"That among these" means there were other unalienable Rights, which were not named.

Now consider:

U.S, Constitution

Amendment 1

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I had many discussions with anti-abortionists, and every one of them were religious right Christians. I saw many abortion discussions online, and the anti-abortionists were religious right Christians. 

In the law is the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur, Latin for, The thing speaks for itself. The American anti-abortionists want the national and state governments to ban abortion, thus establish their religion, which Amendment 1 prevents the federal government from doing, and Amendment 14 applies Amendment 1 to the states.

Further consider:

Amendment 14

Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State where they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Amendment 1 only applies to born or naturalized persons. Amendment 1 does not apply to unborn.

The U.S. Constitution and its Amendments were derived from the Declaration of Independence, which assigned its authority to Nature and Nature's God. 

Unalienable Rights derived from Nature and Nature's God were acknowledged in the Declaration.

Herbs made by Nature and Nature's God were part and parcel of Colonial American society.

Marijuana, known as "bitch weed", was raised and smoked by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson also used bitch weed smoke to calm his bees in their hives at Monticello, when he took their honey.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled American corporations have  Constitutional Rights, even though there is no mention of corporations in the Constitution and its Amendments, nor in the Declaration.

If corporations have Constitutional Rights, how could the herbs created by Nature and Nature's God, about which Benjamin Franklin wrote 28 years before the Declaration of Independence existed, not be unalienable fertility Rights Colonial American women enjoyed, which could not be taken away?

Consider, Native American tribes are allowed to use peyote, as part of their religion.

Consider, a great many pills the FDA, CDC, NIH, AMA and Big Pharma depend on were derived from plants.

Consider the medical uses today of marijuana extracts.

Here is PROOF that women used herbs made by Nature and Nature's God long before and after the Bible came into existence.

A book by John M. Riddle, CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD THROUGH THE RENAISSANCE, traced the anthropological history of herbs used by women to prevent and end pregnancy.

A later book by Riddle, EVE'S HERBS: A HISTORY OF CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION IN THE WEST, was featured in an exhaustive article in The American Historical Society article:archives.

HERBALGRAM.ORG

Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West. - American Botanical Council

https://www.herbalgram.org/resources/herbalgram/issues/45/table-of-contents/article763/?fbclid=IwAR2JFAxrzdIACzu7On4As59BE-OqZ5yJ9pfQMas_evGh_ZaqnByiMr_jG0I

The article's author reported that he and his wife enjoyed drinking pennyroyal tea. She was pregnant. She miscarried. He did research and learned pennyroyal was long used to end pregnancies. He did a lot more research and reported that, too, in his article, which some women told me is fascinating.

The EVE'S HERBS book was available for free via a PDF, until it was taken down recently, because Riddle was receiving death threats.

Here is a link to an Institute for New Economic Thinking interview of Riddle:

Abortion Drugs Fundamental to Ancient Economies, Argues Historian

As women’s rights to make reproductive choices come under assault, historian John M. Riddle argues that abortion...

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/abortion-drugs-fundamental-to-ancient-economies-argues-historian

In sum, the evidence is conclusive that Nature and Nature's God created herbs that women could use to prevent and terminate pregnancy. 

The evidence is overwhelming that the anti-abortion movement in America is a religious right Christian Crusade, which rapes the first line of Amendment 1:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.

Amendment 14 made Amendment 1 applicable to the states:

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.

My home state Alabama's new abortion law, triggered by the overturn of Roe v. Wade, does not allow abortion for rape or incest.

I heard recently that Alabama and other red states are moving quickly to make herbs that cause abortion illegal. I can imagine the American Mafia, the drug cartels and the Russian Mafia are delighted to grow and sell those herbs on the streets of America. 

While the American religious right pretend Genesis 2:7 is not in their Bible:

And, the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

The Old Testament came from the Jewish religion. Some Jews today say life begins at birth. Jesus in the New Testament was a Jew. Women in his day, and before, used herbs to prevent and end pregnancy. Jesus had to know that. Yet there is nothing about that in the Old and the New Testaments, which men wrote.

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com

Chapter 28: Did Colonial America women have an unalienable Right to use herbs made by God or Mother Nature (you pick) to prevent or end pregnancies?

A friend reported a dream earlier today, in which Archangel Michael said there are people who might try to kill me over my discussing "Eve's herbs", which end pregnancy.

Same friend told me later today, that he'd heard from a woman interested those herbs, that my home state Alabama, and other red states, are preparing legislation to go quickly into effect,  which makes herbs that cause miscarriage, class 1 drugs, which require a doctor's prescription. I replied that no doctor known to me would prescribe herbs for any reason. It later occurred to me that the Mafia and the south of the border drug cartels are gearing up to grow lots of those herbs to sell on the streets of America. 

That Pearl Harbor lookout issue aside, I marvel over the federal and state governments presuming they know better than God or Mother Nature (you pick😎) what Americans should or should not do with herbs made by God or Mother Nature (you pick😎). 

As a licensed attorney in Alabama, I have a serious legal problem with the federal and state governments preventing people from using herbs that grow wild in nature. Since when do governments have legal jurisdiction over God and Mother Nature?

In that context, let me say I am not a physician, and I do not advise people about medical conditions, other than sometimes I tell people what I do about my own medical problems, by using physicians sometimes, alternative methods sometimes, and blending the two approaches sometimes. 

Sometimes I tell people how I use herbs, vitamins and minerals to make me smell like a skunk to Covid-19 and its many variants. I also had 3 Pfizer shots.

Although I am not an herbalist, I used herbs in past times, which helped me, and I use a few herbs today, which seem to help conditions that medicine alone has not been able to help.

The first time I caught salmonella and felt I surely would die, I took an herbal combination prescribed by a naturopath and the salmonella cleared up in a few days. 

The next time I caught salmonella and felt I surely would die, a veterinarian, who treated his animal patients with homeopathic remedies, as well as with modern veterinary medicine, gave me homeopathic arsenic, and the salmonella cleared up in a few days.

Did I break state laws? Did those doctors violate state laws? Did that matter to me or them? No. What mattered was the salmonella went away.

Some years ago, I read a very interesting report of a federal lawsuit filed by the Texas medical profession, seeking to ban acupuncturists, who were not M.D.s, from practicing acupuncture. The Texas medical profession's lawyers argued  acupuncture was experimental medicine and, under Texas law, only the Texas medical profession could regulate and use acupuncture. The female federal judge noted that the Texas medical profession had been around about 100 years, while acupuncture had been used in China for 5,000 years and was not experimental. Judgment for the acupuncturists.

Beyond all of that, I can say, based on many conversations I have had with religious right Americans face to face, on Facebook, and elsewhere online, that the root of the opposition to abortion in Alabama, and in America, is the religious right.

If I were hired as a trial attorney, to deal with federal and/or state restrictions on herbs in a court case, I would subpoena anti-abortionists and put them on the witness stand, and prove through them that their opposition to abortion is rooted in their religion.

I would hand them a Bible and ask them to read Genesis 2:7 to the Court.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

They would be between a rock and a hard spot. 

I would ask them if the Bible is the inerrant word of God, every word in it is true? They would be between a rock and a hard spot.

I would ask them who created the heavens and the earth, and al the plants and living beings on the earth? They would be between a rock and a hard spot. 

I would ask them if, in the Bible, the only herb God told Adam and Eve not to eat was the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil? They would be between a rock and a hard spot.

I would ask them if God ever made a mistake? They would be between a rock and a hard spot. 

I would the witnesses if God made herbs that would cause miscarriage? The witnesses would be between a rock and a hard spot.

I would hand them a copy of the Declaration of Independence and ask them to read the Preamble:

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. 

I would ask them if the Founding Fathers drew their authority from Nature and Nature's God? The witnesses would be between a rock and a hard spot.

I would hand them a copy of Amendment I, U.S. Constitution and ask them to read the first line to the Court:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I would hand them a copy of Amendment 14, and ask them to read it to the Court.

Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State where they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

I would ask them if they see anything in Amendment 14 saying unborn persons have any of those rights and immunities. They would be between a rock and a hard spot.

I would ask them if Amendment 14 applies the 1st line of Amendment 1 to the states? They would be between a rock and a hard spot.

Of course, opposing legal counsel would object to questions that ask a lay person to state an opinion on the law. I would reply that I"m simply asking the witnesses to read the law and use their common sense to reply to my questions.

In that context, and continuing my mystical and legal opining about such matters also were addressed in the two previous chapters of this unfolding book...

Before and after Bible times, women used herbs to prevent and end pregnancies.

Women used herbs in Colonial America to prevent and end pregnancies. Benjamin Franklin covered the practice in his book, THE AMERICAN INSTRUCTOR.

I did a Google search for Ben Franklin's book and this NPR interview came up:

For Ben Franklin, abortion was basic arithmetic

For Ben Franklin, abortion was basic arithmetic NPR's Emily Feng speaks with Molly Farrell from The Ohio State University on why Ben Franklin included instructi...

A book by John M. Riddle, CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD THROUGH THE RENAISSANCE, traced the anthropological history of herbs used by women to prevent and end pregnancy.

A similar, later book by Riddle, EVE'S HERBS: A HISTORY OF CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION IN THE WEST, was featured in an exhaustive article in The American Historical Society article:archives. 

HERBALGRAM.ORG

Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West. - American Botanical Council

Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West. - American Botanical Council

Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West. - Am...

The article's author reported that he and his wife enjoyed drinking pennyroyal tea. She was pregnant. She miscarried. He did research and learned pennyroyal was long used to end pregnancies. He did a lot more research and reported that, too, in his article, which some women told me is fascinating.

The EVE'S HERBS book was available for free via a PDF, until it was taken down yesterday, because Riddle was receiving death threats.

Here is a link to an Institute for New Economic Thinking interview of Riddle: Abortion Drugs Fundamental to Ancient Economies, Argues Historian

Abortion Drugs Fundamental to Ancient Economies, Argues Historian As women’s rights to make reproductive choices come under assault, historian John M. Riddle argues that abortion...

The American Declaration of Independence says:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Unalienable means it cannot be taken away. 

Among these means there were other unalienable Rights. 

Clearly, the Declaration does not say women had unalienable rights. However, if men had unalienable rights, surely women had them, even if men back then did agree 😎.

Was women's ancient and ongoing use of herbs made by God or Mother Nature (you choose 😎) to regulate their fertility, an unalienable Right? 

As pointed out earlier in this chapter, Benjamin Franklin, who was reputed to be a ladies man, spoke of such herbs in THE AMERICAN INSTRUCTOR. 

The American Declaration of Independence birthed the United States of America. 

The Declaration was America's first legal document. 

The U.S. Constitution and its Amendments were derived from the Declaration. 

Unalienable Rights were inherent in the U.S. Constitution and its Amendments.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided American corporations have some Constitutional Rights, even though there is no mention of corporations in the Constitution and its Amendments, nor in the Declaration.

If corporations have Constitutional Rights, how could the herbs created by God or Mother Nature (you choose😎), about which  Benjamin Franklin wrote, not be unalienable fertility Rights Colonial American women enjoyed, which could not be taken away?

Well?

Consider further rhetorical questions.

Would the American religious right dare contest herbs God made, knowing very well what those herbs could be used for?

Would anyone that heard, "It's not wise to piss off Mother Nature," dare contest herbs She made, knowing full well what those herbs could be used for?

Would the American medical profession (AMA) contest those herbs?

Would Big Pharma contest those herbs?

Would the FDA, CDC and NIH contest those herbs?

Would the Republicans and MAGAs and Donald Trump contest those herbs?

Would 6 religious right U.S. Supreme Court Justices contest those herbs? 

Would Joe Biden and the Democrats contest those herbs?

So, what about pregnant women living in red states, who do not want to carry their fetus to term?

They birth a baby they don't want and resent?

They commit suicide?

They use a coat hanger?

They do things to try to kill the fetus, so a doctor can legally perform an abortion to save the life of the mother?

They go out of state to get abortions?

They find pharmacy pills that cause abortions?

They become herbalists and claim their herbs are an unalienable right, protected by the Declaration of Independence? 

They claim their herbs are part of their religion, protected by Amendment 1 and Amendment 14 of the U.S. Constitution?

Consider, Native American tribes are allowed to use peyote, as  part of their religion.

Consider, a great many pills the FDA, CDC, NIH, AMA and Big Pharma depend on were derived from plants.

Consider the medical uses today of marijuana extracts.

Consider hemp was raised and sold by some of the Founding Fathers, including George Washington. Do you think they ever lit and smoked hemp?

Do you think the Founding Fathers ever used hashish and opium brought back by The East India Trading Company to England and America?

Do you know any forms of booze, a known killer, not derived from a plant?

Do you smoke or chew tobacco, a known killer?

Is it any skin off your nose, if women use God or Mother Nature's herbs (you choose😎), to prevent or end pregnancy?

Don't you have something more important to do than butt your nose into the uteruses of women you don't know and could care less about, unless they are pregnant and want an abortion?

Are you standing at an abortion clinic every day it's open, begging women who go inside to agree to let you adopt and raise their unwanted baby?

Have you ever had a young child of yours die? If so, you know that hurt you far more than anyone can begin to imagine, who has not had a young child die. 

My first wife had two miscarriages, which upset her a lot. I was upset,  but not nearly as much as her. 

When our son was later born, and then at 7 weeks he died of sudden infant death syndrome, my wife and I were devastated. It was a zillion times worse than the miscarriages.

We did not have funerals for her miscarried fetuses, but we certainly had a funeral for our beautiful, dead infant son, whom we grieved for a very long time.

I don't see funerals for miscarried or aborted fetuses. 

In the law is the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur, Latin for, "The thing speaks for itself."

Sloan Bashinsky