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unknown visitor	Birth Control Bucks 9/26/2008 7:40:26 PM
	Hi Friends I received this from a friend who asked me to post this. I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, so here goes. Louisiana State Representative John LaBruzzo is catching heat after proposing legislation that would pay women on welfare $1,000 if they get sterilized. The Republican says his office has been flooded with calls from angry constituents complaining about those who rely on government handouts. He says, "You have these people who are just fed up with working their buns off to try to provide for their own family and being forced by the government to provide for other families who just want to have unlimited kids." New Orleans Archbishop Alfred Hughes calls the idea "seriously wrong" and Baton Rouge NAACP President Lamont Cole says the proposal could be viewed as racist, adding, "I find it extremely asinine for someone in 2008 to even think something remotely close to that." So, what's your take on all this Folks? Another friend suggested we just neuter all those that don't want kids, that should take care of about half the abortion rates, wouldn't you think? And save innocent lives on top of that.

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Susan B. Anthony

In her publication The Revolution, was written:

"Guilty? Yes. No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; But oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime!"

Abortion was referred to as "child murder."
The Revolution, 4(1):4 July 8, 1869

"We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil...It is practiced by those whose inmost souls revolt from the dreadful deed."
The Revolution, 4(1):4 July 8, 1869

"All the articles on this subject that I have read have been from men. They denounce women as alone guilty, and never include man in any plans for the remedy."
The Revolution, 4(1):4 July 8, 1869

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

She classified abortion as a form of "infanticide." The Revolution, 1(5):1, February 5, 1868

"When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit."
Letter to Julia Ward Howe, October 16, 1873, recorded in Howe's diary at Harvard University Library

"There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?"
The Revolution, 1(10):146-7 March 12, 1868

Emma Goldman

"The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief...So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies."
Mother Earth, 1911

Mattie Brinkerhoff

"When a man steals to satisfy hunger, we may safely conclude that there is something wrong in society - so when a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is an evidence that either by education or circumstances she has been greatly wronged."
The Revolution, 4(9):138-9 September 2, 1869

Victoria Woodhull

The first female presidential candidate was a strong opponent of abortion.

"The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus."
Woodhull's and Claffin's Weekly 2(6):4 December 24, 1870

"Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child, nor think of murdering one before its birth."
Wheeling, West Virginia Evening Standard, November 17, 1875

Sarah Norton

"Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?...Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with."
Woodhull's and Claffin's Weekly, November 19, 1870

Mary Wollstonecraft

As early as 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Women," which Susan B. Anthony admired enough to serialize in The Revolution. After decrying, in scathing 18th century terms, the sexual exploitation of women, she said:

"Women becoming, consequently, weaker...than they ought to be...have not sufficient strength to discharge the first duty of a mother; and sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental affection...either destroy the embryo in the womb, or cast if off when born. Nature in every thing demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity."

Alice Paul

The author of the original Equal Rights Amendment (1923)(before the ERA had a lot of negative things added to it) opposed the later trend of linking the E.R.A. with abortion. A colleague recalls her saying:

"Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women."

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