{"id":188246,"date":"2019-03-11T08:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T13:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=188246"},"modified":"2019-03-01T21:29:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T03:29:21","slug":"six-pro-life-women-opposed-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/six-pro-life-women-opposed-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life women in history: Six amazing women who opposed legalized abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Though you wouldn’t know it from the media and abortion industry narratives, many feminists over the years have been pro-life. Eunice Kennedy Shriver<\/a> was one of these exceptional pro-life women who made history. Here is a list of several more whose names should be known and remembered for their work on behalf of women and their preborn children:<\/p>\n

Fannie Lou Hamer\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hamer was a\u00a0civil rights activist who helped to found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. In 1964, she\u00a0ran for Congress<\/a>. Hamer was also a\u00a0victim<\/a>\u00a0of eugenic sterilization, a\u00a0program<\/a>\u00a0which Planned Parenthood\u2019s\u00a0founder<\/a>\u00a0(as well as those on her board) advocated.<\/p>\n

A 1969 article published by the Free-Lance Star quotes Hamer as\u00a0denouncing<\/a>\u00a0voluntary abortion as \u201clegalized murder,\u201d saying she \u201cmade it clear that she \u2018regards it part of a comprehensive white man\u2019s plot to exterminate the black population of the United States.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fannie Lou Hamer<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The following pro-life women leaders were so horrified about abortion that they went on to begin major pro-life organizations:<\/p>\n

Dr. Mildred F. Jefferson<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mildred Jefferson (Image: Schlesinger Library)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Dr. Mildred Jefferson\u00a0was\u00a0the first Black woman to\u00a0graduate<\/a>\u00a0from Harvard Medical School and\u00a0the first woman employed as a general surgeon at Boston University Medical Center. She was also the co-founder of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), serving as president<\/a>\u00a0from 1975-1978.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jefferson was committed to defending human life from, as she\u00a0described<\/a>\u00a0it, \u201cconception to natural death.\u201d<\/p>\n

She\u00a0once<\/a>\u00a0described why she became a physician, saying, \u201cI became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow the concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged, and the planned have the right to live.\u201d<\/p>\n