June 19, 1865 marked the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas, the final and most geographically remote of the former Confederate states to surrender and free its slaves. Frederick Douglass, who was himself born into slavery and fled bondage, was a fierce abolitionist, as well as a suffragist, allying with Susan B. Anthony and […]
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As Feminists for Life, we believe in the worth of every human being and recognize that all people are not treated equally. We recognize their pain and cry out for justice for George Floyd and countless others who have lost their lives. We also lament the violence against innocent bystanders who have lost their place of employment or business, thereby
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When one thinks of the practice of coerced abortion, China’s bullying one-child-per-couple policy likely comes to mind. Government-coerced or “forced” abortion is used to impose this policy on those who violate it: pregnant women who have already borne a child. China’s now expanded but equally coercive two-child-per-couple limit is no less cruel. Consider the story
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“In short, in many cases of abortion, there is a woman in a desperate situation who feels she has no other choice but to kill her child, and this problem is not simply an African one.” So comments Obianuju Ekeocha, pro-life educator, activist, and author of Target Africa: Ideological Neocolonialism in the Twenty-First Century. It