Thursday, February 17, 2005

The Forerunners of the Women's Movement Were Pro-life

Forerunner.com

Alice Paul, the suffragist founder of the National Woman's Party and author of the Equal Rights Amendment [1923], objected to combining abortion arguments with the fight for the ERA; Paul termed abortion "the ultimate exploitation of women."

This is really interesting. Last year during that week or month that we celebrate women's history we watched a movie about Alice Paul starring (none other than) Julia Roberts. The film wasn't really that bad, but they made her come across as a staunch feminist. This is quite interesting because I've heard about things like the above quote that would suggest otherwise. Public schools and hollywood, a lethal combination. Let's just hope they don't make people watch Kinsey in the classroom.

2 comments:

Jenn said...

i watched a PBS show about kinsley. he was a strange little man... he really liked porn.

Sarah said...

Yeah I read some stuff about him...sick would be a better discription