{"id":186747,"date":"2019-03-03T16:21:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T22:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=186747"},"modified":"2019-02-28T21:19:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:19:53","slug":"roe-feminists-abortion-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/roe-feminists-abortion-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Years after Roe, dissension among feminists over abortion kept growing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In part one<\/a>\u00a0of this series on how NOW’s push for abortion (influenced by men) splintered the so-called “women’s movement” of the 1960’s, several prominent NOW leaders were ousted by the organization for refusal to buy into the pro-abortion, male-led agenda. Years after Roe v. Wade<\/em>, that great divide, rather than resolve, continued to grow.<\/p>\n

1977 Women’s Conference discriminates against opposition beliefs\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In November of 1977, another National Women\u2019s Conference, which should have included diverse opinions, was held in Houston. But just like the NOW convention in the 1960’s that introduced abortion, this 1977 conference also included a radical pro-abortion agenda. According to\u00a0the National Archives<\/a>, “around 20,000 people attended the Houston conference, including some 2,000 delegates who were sent to represent each state.”<\/p>\n

The Texas State Historical Association<\/a> points out that many of the resolutions presented at the national conference were passed at the Texas convention. That delegation was headed by known advocates of abortion, including Ann Richards, 45th governor of Texas (and mother of Cecile Richards, past president of Planned Parenthood), and Sarah Weddington, the attorney who argued the Roe v. Wade<\/em> Supreme Court Case based on the lie that Norma McCorvey (“Roe”) had been raped.<\/p>\n

On November 20, 1977, resolutions advocating abortion rights were approved by the delegates of the convention. According to records<\/a> at the State of Maryland, many “opposed feminist political initiatives like increasing access to birth control and abortion services.”<\/p>\n

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Pro-life delegate Ann O’Donnell opposed 1977 Women’s conference abortion resolution<\/p><\/div>\n

Just after pro-abortion feminist Caridee Wheeler proposed the resolution to support the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade<\/em> decision, Ann O’Donnell, who chaired the Missouri delegation, objected<\/a> by calling<\/a> it the “the antithesis of the feminist women’s movement to oppress the less powerful.”<\/p>\n

“It therefore has to be absolutely ridiculous for people who call themselves feminists to suggest that they kill their unborn children to solve their social problems,” she said.\u00a0“The promise of the women’s movement will absolutely be destroyed if you go on record in favor of this destructive resolution,” she added, according to a\u00a0November 21, 1977 C<\/a>olorado Springs Gazette<\/a> report of the conference.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post reported<\/a> that O’Donell stated that feminists, by supporting abortion, were advocating “worse oppression than the men oppressing them.”<\/p>\n