Ep 141 – Plight of the Unwed Mother

On this episode, I bother all of you with a Facebook fight. Yes, really. Don’t worry, it’s just to springboard into the controversial issue of abortion in Nauvoo Mormonism. We read through a court document from March 1843 of a woman who suffered abuse at the hands of a Thomsonian herbal physician after he gave her ergot and injected cayenne pepper into her veins. Then we opine on the plight of women in 19th-century America. The outro includes a brief conversation with Kimberly Anderson, the featured guest of our next NaMo Home Evening! Links: Dana v. Brink March 1843 https://josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/supersedeas-8-april-1843-dana-v-brink/1 1831 Thomsonian Family Vegetable Medicine https://archive.org/details/cihm_01684/page/n333 William Bicking Brink https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/william-bicking-brink Charles Root Dana https://josephsmithpapers.org/person/charles-root-dana ErGoT https://www.erowid.org/plants/ergot/ Albert Hoffman LSD-25 http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/lsd/lsd.htm Smith-entheogen Theory http://realbookofmormon.org/smithentheogentheory/ Show links: Website http://nakedmormonismpodcast.com Twitter @NakedMormonism Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Naked-Mormonism/370003839816311 Patreon http://patreon.com/nakedmormonism Music by Jason Comeau http://aloststateofmind.com/ Show Artwork http://weirdmormonshit.com/ Legal Counsel http://patorrez.com/