One of the lesser-noted events from
Trump’s Tuesday night address to Congress was the spectacle of many Democratic
women wearing white, apparently in an attempt to show solidarity with the early suffragettes—as well as outfits like
Planned Parenthood.
Set aside the grandiosity of claiming the
mantle of the “next generation of suffragettes. No one, to my knowledge, is
threatening to take away women’s right to vote. But obviously, these Democrats
don’t know the history of the very movement they praise and attempt to emulate
at every turn, or they would see the hypocrisy of standing in support of
Planned Parenthood and the suffragette movement at the same time.
Susan B. Anthony considered abortion one
of society’s great evils, running in her newspaper columns critical of the
practice. As Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony
List, wrote
in National Review earlier this year,
Anthony would often reference “the newspaper
reports every day of every year of scandals and outrages, of wife murders and
paramour shooting, of abortions and infanticides, are perpetual reminders of
men’s incapacity to cope successfully with this monster evil of society.”
Her colleague, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, also decried abortion and “the
murder of children, either before or after birth… We believe the cause of all
these abuses lies in the degradation of women.”
And another early feminist, Victoria Woodhull (who was the first woman to
formally run for president), said, “Wives deliberately permit themselves to
become pregnant of children and then, to prevent becoming mothers, as
deliberately murder them while yet in their wombs. Can there be a more
demoralized position than this?”
Hard to imagine any Democrat in the House chamber Tuesday night saying
something like that.
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