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I challenge any skeptic to find a ten square mile spot on this planet where they can live their lives in peace and safety and decency, where womanhood is honored, where infancy and old age are revered, where they can educate their children, where the Gospel of Jesus Christ has not gone first to prepare the way. If they find such a place, then I would encourage them to emigrate thither and there proclaim their unbelief. — James Russell Lowell

Feminists for Life–Far, Far from a Contradiction in Terms!

June 23rd, 2003 by Jerry

People believe that to be a feminist is to sell the fetus short and be pro-choice, and likewise that abortion, while unpleasant is necessary for women. Serrin Foster and Feminists for Life are campaigning to teach people that this need not be the case, and that the early feminists like Susan B. Anthony were avowedly pro-life, and decried abortion as both murder of a child and a repression of women by divorcing them from motherhood, which early feminists fiercely defended. Here is an article on Serrin Foster's "A Feminist Case Against Abortion" talk, which has changed hearts in universities across America, including the University of Pittsburgh, where Serrin lectured at the School of Medicine, and had immediate, tangible results.

Jerry