Many people assume that feminism and the movement to legalize abortion are virtually synonymous.
Some equate feminism with a virulent leftist political philosophy which advocates abortion, free love, lesbianism, pornography, witchcraft, and goddess worship. Most of the early nineteenth century feminists espoused a conservative morality. Indeed, it was their Christian idealism which was the motivating force behind their demands for reform. One of the chief goals of the Founding Mothers was to reform the sexual abuses in and out of the marriage bed. First, they condemned male promiscuity, and they denounced the social injustices which compelled their sisters to degrade themselves in lives of prostitution.