The early leaders of the feminist movement were against abortion.
Early feminists
Abortion and the early feminists
Alice Paul, 1920, with suffrage flag ©The early leaders of the feminist movement were against abortion.
The radical feminist Susan B. Anthony referred to abortion as "child murder" and viewed it as a means of exploiting both women and children.
Alice Paul, who drafted the original version of the Equal Rights Amendment, referred to abortion as "the ultimate exploitation of women."
Some feminists still oppose abortion on these and other grounds, although now that society has moved on from the early 1900s, other feminists are in favour of abortion rights.
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