Posted on 07/12/2018 7:48:16 AM PDT by Morgana
When Elizabeth Cady Stanton was penning the Declaration of Sentiments, she was imagining a future in which women had the right to own property and to vote, as well as the ability to participate in legislation. She was picturing a life in which women were viewed as equal to men, able to earn an income, able to speak their mind, and treated with respect. But in that vision, did Stanton see a world with abortion on demand? Did any of the major players in early feminism aim for such a thing? No, the early feminists fought for women’s rights, and they did not include abortion.
The first feminists of the United States of America didn’t want what today’s liberal feminists spend their time fighting for — total and complete ‘reproductive freedom.’ They saw abortion for what it is: the oppression of women and children. Stanton said:
When we consider that women have been treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
In the February 5, 1868, issue of The Revolution, Stanton referred to the “murder of children, either before or after birth” as an “evil” which had become “frightfully prevalent.”
Along with Stanton, Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in the United States, spoke out against abortion. Concerning Madame Restell, a fellow female doctor who committed abortions, Blackwell said:
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.
The thought of killing preborn children was a horrible one to our first feminists. They could never have foreseen that an act they considered “evil” and a “gross perversion and destruction of motherhood” would become the center-stage issue that it is today. So focused on abortion are the liberal feminists of the 21st century that politicians are beholden to the abortion industry, accepting money from groups like NARAL and Planned Parenthood in exchange for votes against even popular laws such as the banning of abortion after viability.
So how did feminism lead us to today’s worship of abortion?
Another early feminist, Susan B. Anthony, nailed it when she said:
All the articles on this subject [abortion] that I have read have been from men. They denounce women as alone guilty, and never include man in any plans for the remedy. . . 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 [abortion]. 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!
It would be men who would add abortion to feminism’s to-do list.
In fact, even into the 1960s, the women’s movement remained focused on issues such as women’s right to education and equal pay. The so-called right to abortion was not a goal of feminists even 100 years after Stanton and other first feminists began the movement for women’s rights. Abortion did not take center stage until a few bad men stepped in and worked to convince the women’s movement to take on the pet issues of sexual revolution advocates — including contraception and abortion.
Journalist Sue Ellen Browder’s book Subverted highlights how Lawrence Lader and abortionist Bernard Nathanson founded NARAL and concluded that they needed feminists on board with them if they wanted to get abortion legalized. After years of trying to persuade her, Lader convinced Betty Friedan to include abortion in her political platform despite the fact that Friedan was initially against abortion. Lader convinced Friedan and other women that they needed abortion in order to be truly equal. He did this by grossly exaggerating the number of women who were undergoing illegal abortions and how many of those women were dying from abortion. In order for the sexual revolution to “work,” men needed to avoid accountability, and the best way to remain uncommitted and unaccountable to women was to ensure that children were never born as a result of their sexual affairs. Image: Larry Lader and Bernard Nathanson. Both men worked against the early feminists pro-life movement to push abortion on women.
Over time, women became convinced that it was their children who were holding them back from accomplishing equality. Rather than celebrating the differences between men and women and the equality that exists within and in spite of those differences, women became convinced that they had to be the same as men. Men are never questioned about their ability to do their job because of the number of children they have. Men are not routinely told they cannot get a college degree and be a father at the same time. Men are not overlooked for a promotion because their wife is pregnant. No, it was and still remains women who are told that parenting does not allow for other goals, dreams, or accomplishments. It became common belief that if women wanted to be equal to men, they had to deny the basic and beautiful biological difference between the two sexes. They had to refuse life to their children.
Today, over 70 percent of women who abort say they felt pressured to do so. That pressure comes from the men — and now fellow women, too — who convince these women they can never finish their education or continue their career with a child in tow. The pressure comes from boyfriends or husbands who threaten to leave them if they don’t have an abortion. The pressure comes from parents who threaten to kick a girl out on the streets because she has embarrassed their family. These pressures are overwhelming because women don’t feel they can raise a child alone. And yet, they can. True feminism shows them that.
While it is ideal for men and women to work together caring for children as a family, the sexual revolution hijacked the women’s movement and made it acceptable for men to walk away from their children. With abortion, women were made to feel that they should also walk away from their babies. Women often feel that abortion is their only choice, but it’s not. Many a strong modern woman has given life to her child, defying her circumstances.
Freedom doesn’t come from your back being up against the wall.
Abortion doesn’t mean equality. It isn’t synonymous with freedom. Abortion is oppression. Stanton, Blackwell, and Anthony knew it in the late 1800s and early 1900s. That’s why they never fought for it. That’s why they pointed it out as evil. That’s why they noticed that it was men who wanted abortion, not women.
If men and women work together in complete and true equality, balancing each other’s strengths and reaching together for common goals, then women can experience true freedom, along with their children. Perhaps then, the goals of our first feminists can finally be obtained.
https://rewire.news/article/2015/08/20/false-narratives-margaret-sanger-used-shame-black-women/
Sanger was pro-birth control and anti-abortion. This may surprise you, considering that Planned Parenthood opponents frequently accuse Sanger of erecting abortion clinics in Black neighborhoods, a practice they claim the organization continues to this day.
But this is simply not true.
Sanger opposed abortion. She believed it to be a barbaric practice. In her own words, “[a]lthough abortion may be resorted to in order to save the life of the mother, the practice of it merely for limitation of offspring is dangerous and vicious.” Her views are, ironically, in keeping with the views of many of the anti-choicers who malign and distort her legacy.
but they were Lesbians ,why would they need Abortions
PING
Abortion is our national sin. It makes my heart sick with sorrow and shame.
And no smoking and drinking...It was an anti-male campaign...
Today’s feminists are hate-filled shrews, baring their fang teeth at men, at human nature, and God.
This is why pro-abortionists hate Amy Barrett so viciously. She puts the lie to their excuse that they haven’t been able to achieve because they are women. Here is a lovely, brilliant woman who has a husband, seven beautiful children and will someday be on the SCOTUS, hopefully soon. What’s their excuse?
No drinking because they wanted their husbands home with them and not out in Saloons (bars of the day).
Look up Carrie Nation, she used to walk around with a Bible in one hand and a hatched in the other. She went to jail many of times for busting up saloons. She’d greet Saloon owners cheerfully by saying “Good morning destroyer of men’s souls”
Why did she do this you ask? She lost her husband, the man she loved to the bottle. Sound like a man hater to you or a saloon hater? Can’t say as I blame her.
Feminists today? Drunken whores, the whole lot of them!
“This is a feminist. “
Should have been a JPG of Sarah Palin.
Black people didn’t want it either. I’m in South and the black people who worked with me were quite angry when Roe v Wade passed. They said it was “get rid of black people”. Some time after, the Black leaders persuaded the black population to accept the law.
However, their conviction that the right to be child-free was so absolute, that they did a 180, turned on a dime when the prospect of legalized abortion became a political possibility.
It illustrates how contraception paves the way for abortion. A woman's well-being and the weaturally coincide. Contraception sets up the woman and the child as adversaries, as if they were rivals for rights and status and well-being and care. Once you have the idea that you have a right to reliably sterile sex and erase the "rival", abortion is "necessary" to make it fail-safe.
Interestingly, Margaret Sanger's son Grant, and grandson Alexander, both were abortion advocates, seeing it as an extension (not a contradiction) of Margaret's values and goals.
Lesbian chic didn't come along until way later.
Not sure what you’re saying. What was an anti-male campaign?
Makes one wonder what (or who) drove him to drink ...
A woman's well-being and the weaturally coincide.
A woman's well-being and the well-being of her child do not naturally conflict. They naturally coincide.
Honestly, to me, it sounds like she's the reason her husband took to drink. Not saying it to be snarky, but if that's how she was after his death, I'd imagine she wasn't much different before it.
She was something else...
Early life and first marriage
Nation was born in Garrard County, Kentucky, to George and Mary (née Campbell) Moore.[6] Her father was a successful farmer, stock trader, and slaveholder[5] of Irish descent. During much of her early life, her health was poor and her family experienced financial setbacks.[7] The family moved several times in Kentucky and finally settled in Belton, Missouri in 1854.[5] She had poor education and informal learning.
In addition to their financial difficulties, many of her family members suffered from mental illness, her mother at times having delusions.[7] There is speculation that the family did not stay in one place long because of rumors about Nation’s mother’s mental state. Some writers have speculated that Nation’s mother, Mary, believed she was Queen Victoria because of her love of finery and social airs. Mary lived in an insane asylum in Nevada, Missouri, from August 1890 until her death on September 28, 1893. Mary was put in the asylum through legal action by her son, Charles, although there is suspicion that Charles instigated the lawsuit because he owed Mary money.[5]
The family moved to Texas as Missouri became involved in the Civil War in 1862. George did not fare well in Texas, and he moved his family back to Missouri.[5] The family returned to High Grove Farm in Cass County. When the Union Army ordered them to evacuate their farm, they moved to Kansas City. Carrie nursed wounded soldiers after a raid on Independence, Missouri. The family again returned to their farm when the Civil War ended.[5]
In 1865 Carrie met Charles Gloyd, a young physician who had fought for the Union, who was a severe alcoholic.[8] Gloyd taught school near the Moores’ farm while deciding where to establish his medical practice. He eventually settled on Holden, Missouri, and asked Nation to marry him. Nation’s parents objected to the union because they believed he was addicted to alcohol, but the marriage proceeded.[5] They were married on November 21, 1867, and separated shortly before the birth of their daughter, Charlien, on September 27, 1868. Gloyd died in 1869 of alcoholism.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation
The fact that abortion murder mills sell baby parts takes it up a notch. It is time to outlaw abortion. Not many countries in the WORLD have it as legal as America with murder on demand. The left will want to kill for the right to kill but screw the left and their shrill subhuman sycophants. Abortion is based on lies, deceit, ignorance and politics. It is time we finally proclaim life begins at conception with inherent rights of life and liberty.
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