Jane Sullivan Roberts' Service to Women

• The Boston Globe - Wife's Role in Women's Group Now In Focus by Nina J. Easton
  

  “In 1998, two teenage girls-one pregnant, one a new mother-sued a Kentucky school district because officials there, hoping to send teens a message about unwed motherhood, denied them admission to the National Honor Society.

  In an affidavit filed in the case, Serrin M. Foster, president of the group Feminists for Life, argued that the school district's policy would "encourage students to hide their pregnancies and not seek prenatal care . . . and instead obtain an abortion, or, worst of all, commit neonatal infanticide."

  Foster's affidavit was written by a technology attorney named Jane Sullivan Roberts, the wife of President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, John G. Roberts Jr….

  ...The 33-year-old group, which takes its "feminist" label seriously and boasts Democrats as well as Republican members, rarely addresses the legality of abortion on its website. Instead, the group's focus is "to eliminate, through practical solutions, the root causes driving girls and women to abortion," as Jane Roberts wrote in the 1998 affidavit.

  That means pressing colleges to provide affordable housing and healthcare for new parents, fighting family caps in welfare reform, working for expansion of the Violence Against Women Act, and seeking better enforcement on child support.”



• The New York Times - Anti-Abortion Advocacy of Wife of Court Nominee Draws Interest by Lynette Clemetson and Robin Toner
  

  “…Ms. Foster said Feminists for Life was committed not only to ending abortion, but also to making it "unthinkable" by providing every woman with the assistance she needs. Reversing Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that recognized a constitutional right to abortion, is a goal, she said, "but not enough."”



• The Washington Post - Nominee's Wife is A Feminist After Her Own Heart by Hanna Rosin
  

  ”In 1995 Jane Sullivan walked into the tiny downtown office of Feminists for Life, a group she'd heard about from a friend. Serrin Foster was staffing the front desk and explained to her what they were about. …Sullivan's response was the same as that of many women who discover the group after searching for someplace that could contain all their various beliefs: "I've found my home," Foster recalls her saying. ”

• Christianity Today - Where Does Feminists for Life Fit in the Pro-life Community? by Rob Moll
  

  ”[Feminists for Life’s] emphasis on eliminating the reasons why women choose abortion has influenced the whole [pro-life] movement.”

• Chicago Tribune - A Feminist Case Against Abortion: Court nomination puts group's work in the spotlight by Alison Neumer Lara
  

  ”FFL frames the feminist case against abortion as a question of supporting women and parenting, of making parenting viable, which is an axiom other women's groups can stand behind with FFL serving as the ideological bridge.”

• National Review Online - Changing the Tone by Kathryn Jean Lopez
  

  “Feminists for Life has the civil, compassionate alternative to dead-end debates.”

• Dallas Morning News - Feminists for Life Refuse to Choose - questions and answers with Serrin M. Foster
• FFL President Serrin Foster responds to columnist Ellen Goodman's article with a history lesson on feminist opposition to abortion.