{"id":186753,"date":"2019-03-05T15:44:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T21:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=186753"},"modified":"2019-02-28T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T01:23:09","slug":"thousands-opposed-pro-abortion-now-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/thousands-opposed-pro-abortion-now-women\/","title":{"rendered":"‘They don’t speak for all women’: Thousands gathered to oppose pro-abortion women’s org"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Read parts one<\/a> and two<\/a> of this series.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the late 1960’s the National Organization for Women (NOW) ousted prominent leaders<\/a> who refused to push NOW’s abortion agenda, pushed by two pro-abortion men<\/a>. Ten years later, the rift over abortion continued to split women’s groups, leading to a show-down of sorts at a pro-abortion\u00a01977 conference<\/a> in Houston, Texas.\u00a0And at the same time the Houston conference was taking place, another conference, largely ignored by the media, was being led by prominent pro-life women and attended by thousands.<\/p>\n

The 15,000 woman counter-conference: ‘They don’t speak for all women’\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Down the street<\/a> from the previously detailed Houston (pro-abortion) women’s conference, over 15,000-20,000<\/a> pro-life women gathered for a counter-conference, reported the Wisconsin State Journal<\/a>. They claimed the women who had been delegates to the conference from several states “charged that pro-family women were deliberately excluded from participating in both the women’s conference and state meetings that led up to it.”<\/p>\n

To prove their point, the group circulated a petition for women to sign, condemning abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment. As the thousands of pro-life women gathered in Houston, petitions came flooding in to the local post office by the thousands, and they were displayed at the rally of objectors.<\/p>\n

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Petitions from pro-life women opposing abortion<\/p><\/div>\n

In attendance at the rally of objectors were many notable pro-life women such as Nellie Grey, founder of the March for Life.\u00a0Grey addressed<\/a> attendees while holding up a red rose as a pro-life symbol “of life — also a symbol of martyrdom. A martyrdom that is happening in America where blood is actually flowing as babies are being killed in our hospitals and clinics. And that is the reason that we speak.” She continued<\/a>, “You know what they do in abortion is they simply take the lovely baby from it’s natural habitat and they rip it out, and they throw it away. And that is what is happening in America.”<\/p>\n

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Nellie Grey at 1977 women’s conference<\/p><\/div>\n

Phyllis Schlafly also addressed<\/a> the crowd, saying, “I’m very proud that they excluded me from that convention. I’m here where we’re not ashamed or afraid….”\u00a0She claimed that the Women’s Convention was a charade in order to “tell the Congress and state legislatures that this is what American women want. By coming here today, you have shown that that is not what American women want.”<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0How the push for \u2018abortion rights\u2019 splintered the women\u2019s movement<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n