76: The Insurmountable Problem of No Children Pt. 1 - Contraception in America

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Accusers of Joseph try desperately to write off the inconvenient fact that he had no children with any supposed polygamist wife, even to the point of making truly ludicrous arguments. This episode will once and for all lay to rest the ridiculous claims that Joseph or his supposed wives practiced any form of birth control, or worse, any form of abortion.

Tracing the timeline of contraceptive technology in America as compared to the timeline of Joseph's supposed polygamy is research that should have been done before these claims were ever made.

This episode, responding directly to the claims made by Lindsay Hansen Park, Radio Free Mormon, and Bill Reel, will clearly reveal that it would be far more plausible to claim that Joseph and his wives had access to electric lighting, telephones, and automobiles, than the claims they make to try to explain away his lack of children in polygamy.

Links: (Partial list of resources. There are way too many to include all.)

Erlich/Simon Wager video: https://www.corbettreport.com/ehrlich/

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Question:_Did_Joseph_Smith_produce_any_children_by_his_plural_wives%3F_The_case_against_children#cite_note-3

Mormonism Live: https://youtu.be/SV3f57VZuqo?t=8802

RFM: https://youtu.be/p_PdHBG6fCU?t=1827

Richard Carlile, Every Woman's Book: https://archive.org/details/b30347397/page/42/mode/2up

Robert Owen, Moral Philosophy: https://archive.org/details/moralphysiologyo00owenrich

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2765924?read-now=1&seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents

http://what-when-how.com/birth-control/owen-robert-dale-1801-1877-birth-control/

Charles Knowlton, Fruits of Philosophy: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38185/38185-h/38185-h.htm

https://daily.jstor.org/charles-knowlton-the-father-of-american-birth-control/#:~:text=In%20Chapter%20II%2C%20%E2%80%9COn%20Generation,less%20anxious%20about%20accidental%20pregnancy

http://www.sandragulland.com/spanish-fly-a-deadly-viagra-of-the-past/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/madame-restell-the-abortionist-of-fifth-avenue-145109198/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-timeline/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_abortion#CITEREFDoan2007

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801428494/contraception-and-abortion-in-nineteenth-century-america/#bookTabs=1

Sarah Pratt: http://www.defendingjoseph.com/2017/07/sarah-pratt-revisited.html

https://faenrandir.github.io/a_careful_examination/why-joseph-not-sire-children-plural-wives/#fnref:disputed_by_blake_ostler