Although she is most well-known for helping women obtain the right to vote, it is often untold in history that he namesake of the Susan B. Anthony List was pro-life. Susan B. Anthony was an outspoken opponent of abortion, referring to it as "child murder." Anthony and other early women’s rights leaders were united in their opposition to abortion.
Women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul would not even recognize the modern women’s movement, with its extreme dedication to abortion on-demand. The words of these early advocates for women and their unborn children show an unbridled compassion and recognition that abortion is not the key to women’s liberation.
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"Guilty? Yes. No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who...drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime!" -The Revolution, 1869 |
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"Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child, nor think of murdering one before its birth." -Victoria Woodhull was America's first female presidential candidate. Wheeling, West Virginia Evening Standard November 17, 1875
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"When 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." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton in a letter to Julia Ward Howe, October 16, 1873. Recorded in Howe's diary at Harvard University Library. |
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"Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women."
-Alice Paul is the author of the original Equal Rights Amendment (1923)
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"The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term “female physician” should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women." -Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female physician, in her diary, where she recorded her thoughts about Madame Restell, an early New York abortionist. 1845. |
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