Feminism and Abortion Rights Quiz

Being part of the political movement

Around the middle of the 20th century

Alice Paul

<p>Equal Rights Amendment legislation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How can one protect and help women by killing them as babies?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Not explicitly mentioned</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Early feminists advocated for opportunities in higher education and the professions, equal pay, marital rights, and the rejection of abortion as an expedient answer to women's oppression.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They believed that the oppression of women and the &quot;murder of children&quot; through abortion were intimately linked, and that freedom bought with the bodies of children was a &quot;devil's bargain&quot; that oppressed women under the guise of liberation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Early feminists like Stanton and Brinkerhoff viewed abortion as an act of violence against women and children, and rejected it as an expedient answer to women's oppression. This view is often dismissed as &quot;old-fashioned&quot; and &quot;dispensable&quot; by mainstream feminism today.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stanton argued that the &quot;masculine element is everywhere overpowering the feminine, and crushing women and children alike beneath its feet&quot;, suggesting a dynamic of the masculine oppressing the feminine in society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Brinkerhoff believed that a woman destroying the life of her unborn child is &quot;an evidence that either by education or circumstances she has been greatly wronged&quot; by society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Early feminists advocated for the right of women to refuse intercourse, including within marriage, which was not yet recognized across society at the time.</p> Signup and view all the answers