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Unlike March organizers, Anthony and many of her feminist compatriots were staunchly opposed to abortion. Statutes of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Amelia Bloomer overlook the Seneca River in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Those of us at the Susan B Anthony Birthplace Museum in Adams, Mass., are saddened that the museum honoring this American iconic heroine and tireless worker for women’s rights will not be among the organizations marching in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. Some would, perhaps, think that Anthony family descendants and board members of the great suffragist birthplace would be leading the Women’s March, especially as...

Every year in Rochester, NY, an organization called Metro Justice holds a Peace Parade on Memorial Day . The organization claims to fight for “economic, social, and racial justice,” but their efforts have been compromised in the past where the pre-born are involved. The pro-life organization Feminists for Nonviolent Choices (FFNVC) became a victim of Metro Justice’s dichotomous view of peace when they were excluded from the organization’s peace parade earlier this week. After attending planning meetings where the organization was told by Metro Justice that they would be allowed to participate as long as their message focused on peace,...

Alexandria, VA. - Feminists for Life of America remembers the many contributions of Sargent Shriver who died in a Bethesda, Maryland, hospital on January 18, 2011, at 95 years old. Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., graduated from Yale in 1938 and Yale Law School in 1941. After Shriver married Eunice Kennedy in 1953, they settled in Chicago. Shriver was a strong advocate for civil rights and integration, who persuaded then-candidate and U.S. senator "Jack" Kennedy to personally call the King family after Martin Luther King, Jr., was jailed in Georgia. Shriver was appointed the first director of the Peace Corps by...

Pro-life and pro-choice advocates crowded into the Rockefeller Center Wednesday to see Serrin Foster, president of the pro-life group Feminists for Life, discussed the connection between feminism and the pro-life position. According to Foster, both groups can work together, despite opposing viewpoints, to address the lack of state-provided support and resources that “drives women to abortion,” she said. “I’m not here to criminalize women,” Foster said. “I want to free women from abortion. Abortion is a reflection that our society has failed to meet the needs of women.” According to Foster, the current abortion debate is polarizing and forces women...

The first installment was released in October on the Feminists for Life website and on YouTube. It relies largely on person-to-person distribution, a “ground fire word of mouth,” said Foster. Other methods include sending the e-mailed link to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for distribution to dioceses.

Feminists for Life's Honorary Chair and two-time Emmy winner Patricia Heaton and FFL president Serrin M. Foster are available to discuss the selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin by presidential nominee Senator John McCain as his running mate. Governor Palin became a member of Feminists for Life in 2006. Feminists for Life of America is a nonsectarian, nonpartisan, grassroots organization that seeks real solutions to the challenges women face.

Many people are unfamiliar with Feminists for Life and wonder what the choice of Sarah Palin, who is against abortion rights, signals to the electorate. Well, let me tell you something about Feminists for Life. In 2003, I decided to investigate this group and its energetic leader, Serrin Foster. What did it mean, I wondered, to be a feminist and actively fight against the right to choose when or whether to have a child? So I went to a church in sprawling, suburban, wealthy Danville, California to hear Serrin Foster, president of Feminists for Life, speak on "The Feminist Case...

August 29, 2008 FFL Member Nominated for Vice President of the United States Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, has been selected by Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain as his running mate. According to The Anchorage Daily News published August 6, 2006, "Palin said last month that no woman should have to choose between her career, education and her child." The article went onto say that "she's a member of a pro-woman but anti-abortion group called Feminists for Life." "I believe in the strength and the power of women, and the potential of every human life,' she said." Feminists for...

Alexandria, VA, Aug 29, 2008 / 06:15 pm (CNA).- This morning Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska was selected by Sen. John McCain to serve as his vice presidential nominee. Palin brings with her several unique credentials, but one of the most notable is that she is a proud member of Feminists for Life, according to the group’s president Serrin Foster. In an interview with CNA on Friday, Foster explained that her group normally doesn’t disclose its membership, but since Gov. Palin freely spoke about it to the Anchorage Daily News in August of 2006, she could confirm that Palin joined...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Most Americans heard the name Sarah Palin for the first time on Friday as Senator John McCain named her as his running mate. They're getting a glimpse of the fact that the Alaska governor is pro-life on abortion, but what they may not know is she takes a unique approach to her position.Palin is a member of Feminists for Life of America -- a venerable but little known pro-life group that focuses on the pro-woman reasons for opposing abortion.The organization is considered an expert on understand how abortion hurts women and the complications abortion involves...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading pro-life women's group told members of Congress and their staff this week that women across the country lack pregnancy helps and resources. Feminists for Life of America says the need is particularly acute for college students without good campus resources.The organization held a special workshop on Tuesday to help Congressional staff understand the problem and encourage more support in upcoming legislation.While many college students who become pregnant might prefer to keep their baby and parent while they complete their education, Serrin Foster, the head of the group, says most universities make that task...

LifeNews.com Note: Maria Vitale is Education Director of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation and a LifeNews.com Opinion Columnist. Vitale has written and reported for various broadcast and print media outlets, including National Public Radio, CBS Radio, and AP Radio.When I was a little girl, I was determined to read every good fiction book in the children's section of the Bexley Public Library in Bexley, Ohio. After I had whizzed through my teacher's list of selections, I'd ask the librarian what she would recommend I read.Ironically, I don't remember many of those tomes--but I do recall reading a biography of early feminist...

Patricia Heaton — who won an Emmy for her work on "Everyone Loves Raymond" — is taking sides in the stem-cell research debate. She’s put herself on the opposite side of Michael J. Fox, the much-beloved actor who’s been battling Parkinson’s disease since 1991 and is a firm supporter of embryonic stem-cell research. Heaton is now appearing in a commercial intended to persuade Missouri voters to vote against Amendment 2 on their ballot. Fox, in his own commercial, urges voters to support the measure and Democrat Claire McCaskill, who is running for U.S. Senate against the incumbent, Jim Tenant, a...

Pro-Life Women Fight for Feminism Today’s feminists are far from yesterdays. EDITOR'S NOTE: This piece is reprinted from Women Who Make the World Worse: and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports, by Kate O 'Beirne, with the permission of its publisher, Sentinel. Today's feminists attempt to ennoble their demands by wrapping themselves in the suffragettes' principled campaign for the right to vote. They argue that you can't be pro-women without being pro-choice. But the radical abortion views of today's feminists like Kate Michelman, Faye Wattleton, Gloria Steinem, Gloria Feldt and Eleanor Smeal betray...

The New York Civil Liberties Union charged a private Catholic school in November with discriminating against an unmarried Catholic school teacher by firing her because she became pregnant. Feminists for Life supports the NYCLU in protecting women from pregnancy discrimination because it pits a woman against her own child by forcing her to choose between her career and her pregnancy, and because it effectively discriminates against female employees by providing a different standard as compared to similarly situated male employees. According to court documents, Michelle McCusker was hired to teach pre-kindergartners at the St. Rose of Lima School in Rockaway...

Wednesday, August 10, 2005 NRO's Lopez on Feminists for Life I mentioned Feminists for Life in one of yesterday's posts (please page down and see below - someday, I'll get those "Permanent Links" working). If you want to hear yesterday's show use this link. For some reason, On Point chose not to "Feature" this interview on their main web page. Today's National Review Online published a piece by one of my favorite reporters, Katheryn Jean Lopez. As she says, Justice John Roberts and his wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts have already made history. What a problem Mrs. Roberts' involvement as legal...

I am a married man, and if I know anything from day-to-day experience, it is that you cannot infer a man's politics from those of his wife. This truth came home to me again in a discussion about the politics of Jane Sullivan Roberts, the spouse of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. Over breakfast, I mentioned that Ms. Roberts has been active in a group called Feminists for Life.

I am no bachelor, and if I know anything from day-to-day or indeed minute-by-minute experience, it is that you cannot infer a man's politics from those of his wife. Another proof of this truth came home for me the other morning in a discussion about the politics of Jane Sullivan Roberts, the spouse of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. Over breakfast, I mentioned that Ms. Roberts had been active in a group called Feminists for Life. "I don't think you can be a feminist and try to force women to have babies they don't want," my wife, Marion, said. That...

The reasons to worry about Supreme Court nominee John Roberts continue to accumulate. First we learned he attended Harvard, which is always suspicious. Then the New York Times informed us that his wife, who is also a Catholic lawyer, not only worked pro bono for Feminists for Life but has in the past "attended Mass several times a week." Holy mackerel. Then yesterday brought the Washington Post's scoop that Judge Roberts may once have been a card-carrying member of the Federalist Society. Mr. Roberts has said that he doesn't recall belonging to the lawyers' outfit. But in the best tradition...

Wife of Nominee Holds Strong Antiabortion Views By Richard A. Serrano, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — While Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.'s views on abortion triggered intense debate on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, there is no mistaking where his wife stands: Jane Sullivan Roberts, a lawyer, is ardently against abortion. A Roman Catholic like her husband, Jane Roberts has been deeply involved in the antiabortion movement. She provides her name, money and professional advice to a small Washington organization — Feminists for Life of America — that offers counseling and educational programs. The group has filed legal briefs...