NRO's Lopez on Feminists for Life

I mentioned Feminists for Life in one of yesterday's posts (please page down and see below - someday, I'll get those "Permanent Links" working). If you want to hear yesterday's show use this link. For some reason, On Point chose not to "Feature" this interview on their main web page.

Today's National Review Online published a piece by one of my favorite reporters, Kathryn Jean Lopez. As she says, Justice John Roberts and his wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts have already made history.

What a problem Mrs. Roberts' involvement as legal advisor and some-times board member of FFL must cause. On the one hand, this is a woman with credentials in her own right, a family, and a successful husband. She could be an example that feminists everywhere could point to with pride. If only she weren't anti-abortion.

The New York Times has already admitted to investigating the circumstances of the Roberts' adoptions. During the On Point (NPR) radio interview, yesterday, the NOW representative couldn't resist pointing out that the Roberts children were blond. And every article I've read about Justice Roberts himself mentions his wife's affiliation with FFL - usually in conjunction with some pro-abortion "feminist" who implies that this somehow compromises the nominee.

Ms. Lopez mentions that younger girls and women are more likely to disapprove as a group of abortion than similar groups 20 years ago.

Perhaps that's because thanks to groups like FFL and all those brave women who are the giants upon whose shoulders we stand today have made real our hoped-for world where women can be both career women and mothers - where pregnancy does not mean the end of education and opportunity.

It's time for NOW and the other supposedly feminist "pro-women" organizations (whose main focus is actually ensuring that abortion is anything *but* rare) to recognize that theirs is not the only expression of feminism. And be happy for common ground on which to stand as we build on the past so that our daughters may have a better future.