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Before Hillary Rodham Clinton, there was Victoria Claflin Woodhull, a pro-life feminist who sought the presidency of the United States.<\/p>\n

Woodhull was born in 1838 to parents Buck and Annie Claflin, and was one of 10 children living in a run-down home\u00a0in Ohio. She had an unfortunate childhood, having a father who forced her to travel around as a child preacher and fortune teller. Woodhull did not have much education, and never stepped foot in a classroom. She first married at the age of 15, and would marry two more times throughout her life. But it was her second marriage that sparked Woodhull\u2019s interest in equal rights for women and the preborn.<\/p>\n

According to a Politico article<\/a>, Woodhull\u2019s second husband, Col. James Blood, was a Civil War veteran who\u00a0\u201cencouraged Victoria\u2019s self-education and interest in women\u2019s rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Victoria especially, from a poisonous first marriage, transformed into a woman with a mission \u2013 determined and fearless in her demands that women have an equal place in the country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Becoming the first female stockbrokers, Woodhull and her sister, Tennessee Claflin, invested their money into Woodhull and Claflin\u2019s Weekly, a newspaper that lasted six years. In her editorials, Woodhull talked about the preborn\u2019s right to life.<\/p>\n

Cat Clark\u00a0of\u00a0Feminists for Life\u00a0highlights Woodhull\u2019s commitment to the sanctity of human life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no question that Woodhull\u2019s commitment to equal rights for all people extended to children in the womb,\u201d Clark said.<\/p>\n

In one of her editorials about the rights of children, Woodhull wrote, \u201cThe rights of children, then, as individuals, begin while they yet remain the foetus.\u201d<\/p>\n

In another editorial titled, \u201cWhen Is It Not Murder To Take Life?\u201d Woodhull suggests that life beings at conception and ends at death.<\/p>\n

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The beating of the heart, modern science tells us, never begins; that is to say, there is no time in the whole process of the growth of the human body from the moment of conception until death, that pulsations of life are not present in what is to develop into the perfected body.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While Woodhull\u2019s newspaper differed from pro-life feminists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton\u2019s Revolution<\/em> \u2013 mainly on the policy that Woodhull allowed for pro-abortion pieces to be published, while Anthony and Stanton didn\u2019t even allow for abortion-related advertisements \u2013 her readers knew she was against abortion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoever has read the WEEKLY knows I hold abortion\u2026 to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder,\u201d Woodhull wrote.<\/p>\n

During her time as editor of the newspaper, Woodhull ran and was nominated for president in 1872. She was the first female candidate to run for the position, choosing to spearhead the Equal Rights Party. Frederick Douglass, former slave and abolitionist, was nominated for the vice presidency by her party. He did not accept the nomination, and instead supported President Ulysses S. Grant, the Republican incumbent.<\/p>\n

Although Woodhull did not go on to win the election, she did become the first pro-life feminist to run for the presidency. Her outspokenness against abortion proves that authentic feminism upholds the dignity of all human life, especially the preborn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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