June 30, 2026
Hasten the day until ALL have the right to life…
Dear Feminists for Life,
On March 31, 1776, future First Lady Abigail Adams wrote her husband, John Adams, urging members of the Continental Congress to “remember the ladies” as they formed this new country:
“I long to hear that you have declared an independency—and by the way, in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make [sic] I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”
We celebrate the freedom these men secured, followed by the advances for women and people of color. However, women and children are continuously and increasingly sexually exploited—and the rights of the child have yet to be protected. Despite the Declaration of Independence including a call to respect the “right to Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness,” we still have far to go.
I was born on Constitution Day, something that prompted my father to call me his “Constitution Girl.” September 17 is also the anniversary of George Washington’s farewell address. As I prepare to retire after 32 years, my successor will need your support to build on what we have accomplished during the last half century.
September 17 would also be the date of the bloodiest American battle in history: Antietam. In 1862, a doctor overwhelmed by severely injured Union soldiers was running out of supplies. He resorted to corn leaves when the bandages ran out—and prayed for a miracle.
Rebuffed by Congress, a young woman pleading for medical supplies went to her friends for help. The word spread and without notice, she showed up in Sharpsburg with the needed supplies to save lives. They called her the Angel of the Battlefield. Her name was Clara Barton, and this suffragist would go on to found the Red Cross in Fairfax County, establishing a field hospital in a pretty white chapel named St. Mary’s Church during the Battle of Manassas—where my sister would be married over a century later.
I think those who supplied Clara with the desperately needed resources were also angels, like each of you who have volunteered and donated to save untold lives and change hearts and minds.
Over 22,000 died at Antietam and 750,000 total fathers, sons, and brothers were killed during the war. Sixty-six million American children have been killed by abortion. Yes, we are in a modern civil war.
When an unborn child is only protected in half the states—and mothers don’t have what they need and deserve, clearly the Dobbs decision was not enough. Our civil war rages on. Once again, the value of a human being is determined by location. Once discrimination by race was in Southern states. Today we discriminate against children in a variety of states. And instead of a patriarchy that devalues women, a perverted matriarchy devalues our own children, treating them as chattel.
A pornified culture has destroyed relationships and led to a molestation nation. We are watching boys and men live a half-life, a synthetic existence that creates unrealistic expectations. Living in post-COVID isolation, both are creating fantasy AI partners and false expectations (or no real relationships at all.)
Poison is being sold and shipped across the nation to take the lives of hundreds of thousands of children each year. Our feminist foremothers decried the “slaughter of children,” as do we knowing abortion also takes the lives of women and girls that have been marketed and sold a bitter pill as a “choice.” The abortion practitioners aren’t here for the aftermath. No, our movement has taken up that mantle, too, like angels in the battlefield.
Abortion IS discrimination. It IS domestic violence. Abortion IS a part of a spectrum that demonstrates this society does not value women and children beyond being a commodity to be bought and sold on the streets, strip clubs, and internet. And predators now have a new weapon: Sextortion.
“Remember the ladies”? We want this nation to remember the woman, remember the child.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the mother of the women’s movement and pro-life feminist updated the Declaration of Independence with a “Declaration of Sentiments” to include women.
As Feminists for Life, we take it one step farther with our updated version to include our call for holistic resources and support for women and children and the elimination of violence and exploitation made worse by abortion.*
All people are equal. All choices are not.
As we head towards the next 250 years of this great nation, to make it genuinely great, both women and men must recognize that abortion, discrimination, violence and exploitation have no place. We recommit ourselves to replace despair and fear with hope and love through resources and support. To my successor and to each of you who sacrifice for the most vulnerable, I have one wish: Let HOPE Rise and eclipse us to finish this.
Because women deserve better,
Serrin M. Foster
President
Editor’s Note: *Stay tuned for the reveal of FFL’s NEW Declaration of Sentiments on the anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention!