{"id":125680,"date":"2016-09-09T13:34:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T17:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=125680"},"modified":"2016-09-09T13:34:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T17:34:29","slug":"honoring-departed-pro-life-hero-phyllis-schlafly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/honoring-departed-pro-life-hero-phyllis-schlafly\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring departed pro-life hero Phyllis Schlafly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Monday, Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly died at age 92<\/a>. Though she spent decades as a leading activist for a wide range of conservative political causes, pro-lifers in particular owe her gratitude and remembrance for her work in defense of preborn babies.<\/p>\n

Students for Life of America president Kristan Hawkins hailed<\/a> Schlafly’s work, dating back to the earliest days of abortion as a national controversy in the United States, as not only “inspir[ing] millions to the fight against abortion,” but also as “the reason the Republican Party is a pro-life party.”<\/p>\n

When the Supreme Court first imposed abortion-on-demand upon the nation, there were no clearly defined party positions on abortion, with supporters and opponents on both sides. Modern radical feminism soon ensured that many legislators\u00a0would abandon their former pro-life stances<\/a>; without the political pressure and mobilization organized by leaders like Schlafly, there may not have been\u00a0any<\/em> meaningful opposition to it.<\/p>\n

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