Sheila Green: Perhaps someday, feminists will return to a pro-life footing
January 22 marks the 45th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, which established the still hotly contested constitutional right to abortion. While marches occurred this weekend all over the country in support of, among other things, women’s rights, sadly the unborn still are not legally viable, though they are so scientifically and physically.
Early feminists saw abortion as a symptom of women’s oppression, not a solution; an abrogation of the civil rights of women and children, not an affirmation; a crime against humanity, not a criterion of progressive thinking. Pro-life feminists yearn for the day when the predominantly pro-life beliefs of early feminists are accepted by the majority of the current movement. Hopefully, one day feminists will once again unite and march under the common understanding that Victoria Woodhull had in her time, “Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child, or think of murdering one before its birth.”
Shelia Green, Oakdale
This story was originally published January 23, 2018 at 11:42 AM with the headline "Sheila Green: Perhaps someday, feminists will return to a pro-life footing."