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Early feminists

Abortion and the early feminists

Alice Paul in 1920, standing in front of suffrage flag holding up a glass

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."



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