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Moms of the Pro-Life Movement

Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Monday, November 07, 2011 10:00 AM

http://www.sba-list.org/suzy-b-blog/susan-b-anthony-list-seeking-young-women-leaders

Here’s a nice piece in the Washington Post’s On Faith column on the young moms of the pro-life movement.

It features my friend Marjorie Dannenfelser of the Susan B. Anthony List.
(Great picture at the link, Marjorie!)

Recent news stories about the new vitality of the antiabortion movement and its legislative achievements — more than a dozen states enacting record numbers of abortion restrictions this year — have glossed over one crucial fact. The most visible, entrepreneurial and passionate advocates for the rights of the unborn (as they would put it) are women. More to the point: They are youngish Christian working mothers with children at home.

The one sour element in an otherwise straightforward story is the author’s need to take a slap at the previous generation of pro-life leaders.

She lists some figures—Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell—who were certainly influential in the Christian Coalition and Moral Majority movements respectively, but not dedicated to pro-life work as such.

Women such as Phyllis Schlafly and Beverly LaHaye are written off as old battle-axes—as if when they started they weren’t also young Christian mothers.

All the major pro-life organizations—both in Washington and at the grass-roots level—have always been filled with women, including women with children. Where do people imagine volunteers to stuff envelopes or counsel at crisis pregnancy centers come from?

To me it seems the Post writer has “discovered” something that’s been true all along for anyone paying attention.

Still, it’s nice to see someone paying attention.

It suggests that the change that’s happening is not so much on the pro-life side, but on the part of the culture at large and its willingness to engage us.

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Posted by Patricia on Monday, Nov 7, 2011 5:47 PM (EDT):

Thanks for posting this!  I’ll toot the horn for a friend of mine who is a young, homeschool mom of 5 who is an up & coming leader in the pro-life movement, Angela Franks.  Angela & her husband, David, were members of our local Catholic homeschool group before they relocated to the Boston area.  I’m happy to say that she is the featured speaker of our state’s Annual Pro-Life Rose Dinner next week where a group fellow homeschool moms & I are looking forward to hearing her speak.

Angela is currently the Director of Theology Programs for the Theological Institute for the New Evangelization at St. John’s Seminary (Boston, MA).  She served with her husband as the coordinator for the Massachusetts Catholic Conference’s marriage initiative, “The Future Depends on Love,” & hosted a show of the same name for Catholic TV.

Angela is an excellent speaker on such subjects as the history of Planned Parenthood (she wrote a in-depth book entitled “Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Legacy: The Control Female Fertility”) , sexual ethics, life issues & the theology of the body.  She will have a chapter in the upcoming book, “Women, Sex and the Church” (Pauline Books and Media).

 
Posted by Monica (momof2) on Monday, Nov 7, 2011 7:18 PM (EDT):

The article made it sound like there is a new phenomenon of working pro-life moms.  The backbone of the pro-life has always been working moms.  The only difference between me and Marjorie is she gets paid and I am a volunteer.  Women in professional pro-life jobs or any professional charity work don’t get paid much but they do get paid.  Meanwhile there are legions of unsung, unpaid moms out there stuffing envelopes, working the phones and hitting the pavement and bringing their kids along to do the same.  That has never changed.

 
Posted by Patricia on Tuesday, Nov 8, 2011 11:17 AM (EDT):

Monica(momof2),
You are right, the backbone of the grassroots pro-life movement has always been moms (whose children tend to come along with them) volunteering their time.  I grew up taking the day off from school to attend the March for Life & picketing the local hospital that performed abortions…our own children attend the March now & have grown up stuffing envelopes, leafleting, attending prayer vigils, etc.


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