The icon of modern-day feminism would be horrified at what is being done in her name. 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 other goals. Willing to go to jail for what she believed, Anthony illegally cast a ballot in the 1872 presidential election and was arrested.
Abortion hurts women.
Anthony and her friends knew this, and in fact the feminist movement did not support abortion until the 1970s. Derr discovered dozens of essays by a wide range of feminists decrying the violence of abortion and its damage to women. 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.