From The Report of the Board of Enquiry into Scientology [the report from Victoria, Australia in 1965] Chapter 6: Hubbard – The Founder of Scientoogy
In Dianetics: MSMH, Hubbard writes,
“Attempted abortion is very common. And remarkably lacking in success. The mother, every time she injures the child in such a fiendish fashion, is actually penalizing herself. Morning sickness is entirely engramic, so far as can be discovered, since clears have not so far experienced it during their own pregnancies. And the act of vomiting because of pregnancy is via contagion of aberration. Actual illness generally results only when mother has been interfering with the child either by douches or knitting needles or some such thing…. Morning sickness evidently gets into a society because of these interferences such as attempted abortion, and, of course injury.”
Comment would be superfluous
The entire second half of the chapter is actually fairly funny, and reading it seems to make this last bit even better.
Well, I think it’s funny, anyway. The way they just…’Comment would be superfluous’…it’s so insane, it speaks for itself, and all that.
Because, you know, it’s not like morning sickness has anything at all to do with the rampaging hormonal storm brought about by the body’s reaction to this new living creature inside it that it must now nurture and sustain above all other functions. That would be silly, right?
Good thing this guy is dead. I know bunches of women who would love the opportunity to use knitting needles on him.