Prolife Feminism Yesterday and Today

One of my favorite things about this book is the biographical sketches of the women who wrote. They are a great account of the struggles which these women overcame in their lives to try to help others.

What an eye-opener to see that the feminist foremothers did not support anything like the abortion-supporting and male-bashing "feminism" of today; but they were instead women who valued love and equality in marriage, and who valued the lives of both mother and child in a crisis pregnancy. Far from being motivated to oppose abortion by a concern about the mother's health alone, they saw the deaths of the unborn children and the risks the mothers took as evidence of problems women faced in society instead of any part of the solution to them. It's long past time for women who value our freedoms and our rights to read this book and others like it, and recognize that preserving our rights does not mean supporting the taking away of the lives of our unborn sisters and daughters. It's not us vs. them. We can do much, much better for us *and* them.

I found this book to be the missing link between the pioneering feminist advocacy of yesteryear and today's female-dominated pro-life movement. It effectively challenges the notion that feminists must, indeed CAN, defend abortion as a means of securing women's full emancipation.The book's credibility lies in the presentation of the information. Rather than simply asserting that our feminist forebears believed such-and-such, the editors present these women in their very own words and in full context, leaving no room for speculation about exactly what they said and why.This book ought to be required reading in every women's studies program, though the challenge it presents to neo-feminist orthodoxy is the very reason why it probably won't be.