Knowing that Fiorella admires the vision of the early feminists, I am interested to know how feminism moved from being pro-life to being “pro-choice”. She informs me that many people are surprised to learn that “the early feminists viewed abortion as yet another way in which a patriarchal society oppressed women. It was only in the 1960s that women’s groups embraced the idea of abortion as a right.” She reflects that in her view “this was deeply connected with the beginnings of the sexual revolution and the myth of no-consequences sex. A much more comprehensive study of abortion and feminism was written by an eye-witness, Sue Ellen Browder, in Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Woman’s Movement.”
Source: Can you be a feminist and pro-life? | CatholicHerald.co.uk
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