100 years ago, I could not vote.But before that, my voice was inaudible. Not silent; but unheard.Ignored.The shouts of my pains, of my lack of personhood;(for I was nothing without my husband)Fell on deaf ears.My body was constricted;The way they dressed me; the life they gave me.I was nothing if not wife or mother.My intellectuality […]
In celebration of the 201st birthday of Susan B. Anthony, Feminists for Life is proud to release Part 1 of FFL President Serrin M. Foster’s speech, “The Feminist Case Against Abortion.” Serrin shares our pro-woman, pro-life history, beginning with the first wave feminists. Her landmark speech has been recognized as one of the “Great Speeches in History” in an anthology called Women’s Rights. Additionally, our calendar has once
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Frederick Douglass was born a slave in February of 1818. Although no official record of his birthday exists, it is commonly attributed to today, Valentine’s Day, because his mother called him her “little valentine.” FFL has repeatedly referenced and honored Douglass for his contributions to both the abolitionist and suffragist causes. He was a longtime friend of
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Damian J. Geminder On March 31, 1776, the effort for women’s suffrage began. The future First Lady Abigail Adams wrote her husband, John Adams, imploring the members of the Continental Congress to “remember the ladies” as they formed a new country: “I long to hear that you have declared an independency—and by the way, in the
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