Perhaps there will come a day when.an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood.and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with. Anthony successfully argued for women’s admission to Cornell University, wrote in 1870:Ĭhild murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned. The early American feminists-facing conditions similar to those in developing countries today-were strongly opposed to abortion despite their own struggles, they believed in the worth of all human lives.Ībortion was common in the 1800s. Women’s rights to assemble, speak freely, attend college and maintain child custody after divorce or spousal death were severely limited. They could not control their own money, sit on a jury or even testify on their own behalf. Barred from speaking at the 1842 World Anti-Slavery Convention simply because they were women, Mott and Stanton determined to hold a convention advancing the rights of women.Īt that time, American women could not vote or hold property. Like her mother, the younger Mary would become a great writer, producing one of the greatest novels ever to address the dangers of violating nature- Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley.įifty years after Mary Wollstonecraft’s book was published, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton traveled to England to fight for the abolition of slavery.
Mary Wollstonecraft died from complications following the birth of her second baby girl, who was named Mary in her honor. Decrying the sexual exploitation of women in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Wollstonecraft also condemned those who would “either destroy the embryo in the womb or cast it off when born,” saying: “Nature in everything deserves respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.” The organization Feminists for Life continues a 200-year-old tradition begun by Mary Wollstonecraft in England in 1792. Feminism rejects the use of force to dominate, control or destroy anyone. Properly defined, feminism is a philosophy that embraces basic rights for all human beings without exception-without regard to race, religion, sex, size, age, location, disability or parentage.
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