{"id":211297,"date":"2019-09-24T09:59:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T14:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=211297"},"modified":"2019-09-23T19:19:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T00:19:29","slug":"tennessee-rep-lamar-compares-pro-life-women-anti-suffragettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-rep-lamar-compares-pro-life-women-anti-suffragettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Rep. London Lamar compares pro-life women to anti-suffragettes. There’s a problem with that."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week while speaking at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), Tennessee Representative London Lamar compared pro-life women to the women who were against the right to vote. Speakers on the panel spoke about the history of voting rights. <\/span>During the panel, Rep. Lamar described the suffragettes as \u201cyoung, hip women\u201d controlling their own futures. She pointed out these women had contemporaries who disagreed with them and thought they could influence politics from the sidelines rather than getting involved with voting. At this point, Rep. Lamar likened this situation to \u201creproductive rights\u201d and \u201cwomen\u2019s autonomy\u201d today; namely, that some women don\u2019t support other women\u2019s autonomy because it “messes up what they’re doing,” according to the <\/span>Daily News Journal<\/span><\/a>. “I’m not trying to take away from (your life), but don’t try to take away from mine,” said Rep. Lamar.<\/span><\/p>\n

This contrast is puzzling because, despite the common refrain of abortion activists today, the roots of feminism in the United States are thoroughly pro-life<\/em>. <\/span>The founding mothers of feminism recognized the unity between feminism and respect for the sanctity of all human life.<\/span><\/p>\n