Her story is similar to others I've heard from teachers of her vintage. Today, 1.5 million U.S. kids are schooled at home, a fivefold increase over the last eight years. A Quaker who never married, Anthony devoted her energy first to the abolition of slavery and then to women's equality at the ballot box. She and other early feminists believed that the power of the vote was the key to fulfilling all the other goals. Susan B. Anthony was pro-life.
Abortion hurts women.
Anthony and her friends knew this, and in fact the feminist movement did not support abortion until the 1970s. Women felt pressured into aborting because they were deprived of truly life-affirming sexual and reproductive options. This is still very much the case. If we don't want unborn children to be treated as insensate clumps of tissue, we must first of all ensure that their mothers are not treated as insensate clumps of tissue. That's a position Susan B. Anthony would understand.