{"id":518,"date":"2006-10-14T13:55:03","date_gmt":"2006-10-14T13:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=518"},"modified":"2025-09-30T03:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:02:18","slug":"susan_b_anthony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Susan B. Anthony and the Right to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

An October 13th op ed in the NY Times tried to muddy the waters about the commitment of Susan B. Anthony, and other early feminists and suffragettes, to solving problems without recourse to killing unborn babies.<\/p>\n

Here is a very good discussion of the article, as well as a response by Serrin Foster, Director of Feminists for Life of America:<\/p>\n

open book: Susan B. Anthony – prolife or not?<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s part of Serrin Foster’s comments – <\/p>\n

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Our feminist foremothers sought to consistently defend human beings through their efforts for suffrage and for abolition of slavery. The basic tenets of feminism, which we have received from the early feminists, are nondiscrimination, nonviolence, and justice for all. Abortion violates all three. <\/p>\n

The spirit of FFL\u2019s mission to create holistic solutions to the challenges faced by pregnant women and parents is perhaps best expressed in Anthony\u2019s own words: \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." (Susan B. Anthony, quoted in Frances Willard\u2019s Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman, Chicago: Women\u2019s Temperance Pub. Assoc., 1889, 598) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An October 13th op ed in the NY Times tried to muddy the waters about the commitment of Susan B. Anthony, and other early feminists and suffragettes, to solving problems without recourse to killing unborn babies. Here is a very good discussion of the article, as well as a response by Serrin Foster, Director of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}