{"id":1162,"date":"2024-03-18T18:55:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtlnwi.org\/nwi\/?page_id=1162"},"modified":"2024-03-21T23:16:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T23:16:26","slug":"feminism-and-abortion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rtlnwi.org\/nwi\/feminism-and-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminism and Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1162\" class=\"elementor elementor-1162\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b6f4cf e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3b6f4cf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b3fb617 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b3fb617\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rtlnwi.org\/nwi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/RTL-NWI_Magenta_Life-Line_REV01.png\" title=\"RTL-NWI_Magenta_Life Line_REV01\" alt=\"Lifeline- Right to Life of Northwest, IN\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3bbafb0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3bbafb0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f3c6e25 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f3c6e25\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The History of Pro-Life Feminism<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-286efec e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"286efec\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d9dbcb elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6d9dbcb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rtlnwi.org\/nwi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/RTL-NWI_Magenta_Life-Line_REV01.png\" title=\"RTL-NWI_Magenta_Life Line_REV01\" alt=\"Lifeline- Right to Life of Northwest, IN\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-099d842 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"099d842\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9034a18 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"9034a18\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f03f5b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2f03f5b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e78821c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e78821c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">New insight is offered into the roots of pro-life feminism. The early suffragist movement was a movement concerned not only with the right-to-vote but also with securing human rights for all persons. Most prominent women\u2019s rights activists during the suffragist movement were also abolitionists and were unequivocally pro-life.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Feminist Case Against Abortion \u201cAbortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.\u201d Alice Paul, Author of the Original E.R.A. (Equal Rights Amendment), 1923.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cSweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.\u201d\u00a0Susan B. Anthony, 1889<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200b<\/span>This presentation defends women\u2019s rights and the belief that these rights do not come at the expense of others, especially those of our pre-born children.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200b<\/span>In calling for abortion rights as the ultimate guarantee that women can control their own bodies, abortion advocates are viewing a woman\u2019s body as a kind of territory to be subdued, interfered with, and dominated. This is not a feminist perspective, regardless of how many people maintain that it is.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Trained volunteer educators offer a commitment to the philosophy that all human life from conception until natural death deserves dignity and protection.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200b<\/span>The Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lectures discuss prominent feminist philosophies and critique their failure to recognize the unborn child\u2019s right to life.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200b<\/span>Without known exception, early American feminists condemned abortion in the strongest possible terms. In Susan B. Anthony\u2019s newsletter, The Revolution, abortion was described as \u201cchild murder\u201d, \u201cinfanticide,\u201d and \u201cfoeticide.\u201d Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who in 1848 organized the first women\u2019s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, classified abortion as a form of infanticide and said, \u201cWhen we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200b<\/span>The anti-abortion laws that early feminists worked so hard to enact to protect women and children were the very ones destroyed by the Roe vs. Wade decision 100 years later \u2013 a decision hailed by the National Organization for Women (NOW) as the \u201cemancipation of women.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200b<\/span>The Elizabeth Cady 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