“…you can’t let a snake into the house and think it won’t bite.” By Rose Marie Jackson I became a social worker because I wanted to dedicate my life to helping the most vulnerable in society. It was my honor to serve as an officer at the state level for the National Association of Social […]
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FFL Board Member Jessica O’Connor-Petts became pregnant shortly after graduating from university in 1996 but continued with her plan to move to Washington, D.C. to work in public policy and row competitively. With the loving support of family, friends, and caregivers, she made an adoption plan for her birthson, including four joyful weeks with him after
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Eliza Bisbee Duffey Early feminist Eliza Bisbee Duffey, writing about abortion in “The Limitation of Offspring” chapter of her 1876 book The Relations of the Sexes: Abortion, intentionally accomplished, is criminal in the first degree, and should be regarded as murder. Yet women have been taught to look lightly on this offence, and to consider it
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Mattie Brinkerhoff Mattie Brinkerhoff is the author of one of the most resonant passages regarding women and abortion that have survived from the 19th century; a passage linking early feminist battles for women’s rights with that century’s debate about the persistent evils of abortion and infanticide. “When a man steals to satisfy hunger, we may safely
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