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Feminists for Life is dedicated to systematically eliminating the reasons that drive women to abortion, primarily lack of resources and support, because women deserve better.

March Forth!TM 2010: NEW women’s history issue of The American Feminist® includes NEW "Voices of Our Feminist Foremothers" brochure, calendar and ad! Join FFL NOW to receive both "March Forth" and "Pro-Woman Answers to Pro-Choice Questions."

• Victory! Pro-Life Students Vindicated After Posting FFL's Pro-Woman Ads!
  
  
• Major Victory for Pregnant & Parenting Students-Thanks to FFL Members!
  
  
• FFL's national resource guide for pregant women & parents is now online—in full color.
  
  
• FFL illuminates our rich pro-life feminist history with new resources for activists and historians.
  
  
• Susan B. Anthony: The Rest of the Story
  
  
• The Washington Post documents progress for student parents!
  
  
• Egregious Abuses of Women at Philadelphia Abortion Clinic
  
  
• FFL Ads Result in Discrimination Against Pro-Life Student Group
  
  
• Celebrate Susan B. Anthony's 190th Birthday with Feminists for Life
  
  
• Former NARAL and Catholics for Choice Presidents: Innovation continues with FFL
  
  
• Dr. LeRoy Carhart v. Serrin M. Foster on NPR Friday
  
  
• Segregation is not the answer for health care reform
  
  
• Raising Kids on a Shoestring: FFL Unveils New National Resource Guide for Pregnant Women, Parents
  
  
• Senate to Consider Pro-Life Amendment to Health Care TODAY
  
  
• Sec. Hillary Clinton hears FFL's message: Women Deserves Better
  
  
• CNA contrasts Planned Parenthood President v FFL President's response to Stupak Amendment.
  
  
• Feminists for Life's soon-to-be released issue of The American Feminist,^® entitled "Raising Kids on a Shoestring," builds on—and goes well beyond—our earlier resources.
  
  
• Women the winners as U.S. House of Representatives decide women deserve better than abortion in health care reform.
  
  
• Joyce MCauley-Benner speaks out on modern day slavery in America
  
  
• A new FFL ad asks: "Where's the Support?" (PDF link)
  
  
• Chaunie Brusie told her story at a Capitol Hill briefing July 30, 2009
  
  
• FFL mourns the loss of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a Remarkable Pro-Life Woman
  
  
• Primer for Coerced Abortion
  
  
• FFL calls for no violence, period, after anti-abortion protester Pouillon was fatally shot on 9-11-09.
  
  
• Birthmothers and former Feminists for Life board members Jessica O'Connor-Petts and Julia Thornton were interviewed, along with FFL President Serrin M. Foster, by Cheryl Wetzstein in the April 12, 2009, edition of the Washington Times.
  
  
• Abortion providers document own failure to serve women, says FFL President Serrin M. Foster. FFL reveals plan.
  
  
• Feminists for Life celebrates our last 16 years of accomplishments for women. Judge for yourself how we continue the work of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
  
  

FFL Unveils Videos on YouTube

• New Video: Exposing Coercion: Pregnant Women Stand Up by Ann Lowrey Forster
  
• Angelica Rosales IS that exception for "life of the mother."
  
• Chaunie Saelens Brusie learned she was pregnant while in college - and a pro-life activist.
  
• Read Chaunie's Story: A Feminists for Life Intern's Unexpected Journey.
  
• Joyce McCauley-Benner was raped, then learned she was pregnant.
  
• Melissa Ohden was aborted - and survived.
  

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Feminists for Life is featured in a five minute CBN News segment including an interview with FFL President Serrin M. Foster.

Mary Meehan reveals the impact of "Feminists for Life on Campus" for Human Life Review.

Perception is Reality, a study of FFL's first nationwide Pregnancy Resources Survey^TM, reveals that students lack awareness of resources and support needed by pregnant and parenting college students.

Student activists should check out our College Outreach Progam and contact coordinator@ffloncampus.org to evaluate their campus by taking FFL's Pregnancy Resource Survey, get free ads and downloadable iron-ons, book speakers, get a free "grow your group" and year-round activism kit, host an FFL Pregnancy Resource Forum,^SM hold a FFL Rally for Resources,^SM and much more.

FFL's Pregnancy Resource Forums^SM inspired the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Student Services Act. If passed, this legislation would help pregnant and parenting college students continue their education.

FFL President Serrin M. Foster urges Members of Congress to ensure continued coverage for BOTH pregnant women and unborn children via the SCHIP program.

Did FFL inspire the 2008 party platforms? Democrats support woman-centered solutions; Republicans state, "Women deserve better than abortion."

Feminists for Life applauds the passage of the Coercive Abortion Prevention Act and four related bills by the Michigan state House of Representatives on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 by an overwhelming 67-38 vote.

Feminists for Life fights Pregnancy Discrimination.

• School Fires Pregnant Woman and Feminists for Life responds
• Feminists for Life Supports Teen Moms

Feminists for Life supports access to health care for low-income women.

• Read more of Feminists for Life President Serrin Foster's Op-Ed in the Detroit News.
• Feminists for Life President Serrin Foster celebrated a significant change in regulation that will benefit both uninsured women and their unborn children.

Feminists for Life opposes Violence Against Women.

• Feminists for Life celebrated reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act!
• Read The American Feminist issue entitled Victory Over Violence.
• The Unborn Victims of Violence Act - also known as Laci and Conner's Law - passed the Senate on March 25, 2004. Feminists for Life's President Serrin Foster testified on the bill before the House Judiciary Constitution Subcommittee - read and watch her testimony.

Feminists for Life celebrates our last 16 years of accomplishments for women. Judge for yourself how we continue the work of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

NARAL calls FFL anti-choice? Puh-leaz.

Feminists for Life President Serrin Foster's presented "Crimes Against Women Around the World" during Georgetown law school's Global Awareness Week.

FFL remembers the contributions of the late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a Remarkable Pro-Life Woman® who was assassinated on December 27, 2007.

Feminists for Life was designated as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (2005).

Feministas Pro Vida

Feminists for Life welcomes all people who support our work on behalf of women and children. Individual members and supporters of Feminists for Life enjoy a broad spectrum of opinion regarding issues outside FFL's mission. FFL is a nonsectarian and nonpartisan 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. FFL engages in collaborative work with many organizations and individuals exclusively on an issue-by-issue basis. Feminists for Life cannot and does not endorse or support either political parties or candidates of any party. Donations to FFL are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Celebrity Activism:

• Read about our two-time Emmy winner and Honorary Chair Patricia Heaton, Honorary Co-Chair Margaret Colin and other celebrity news.

"Funny Feminist" FFL Honorary Chair Patricia Heaton in article from National Review Online.

Margaret Colin urges Members of Congress to "Remember the Woman."

Longtime FFL member and former Democrats for Life board member Carol Crossed purchased the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace. Carol Crossed has been featured in The American Feminist as a Remarkable Pro-Life Woman.

FFL Member nominated for Vice President of the United States in August 2008.

Popular novelist Anne Rice endorsed Feminists for Life in 2007.

Jane Sullivan Roberts served as legal counsel to Feminists for Life of America on a pro bono basis. When her husband, Circuit Court Judge John Roberts was nominated for to the Supreme Court, FFL made news across the country. A biography appears separately.

Revisit FFL's e-tutorial about our feminist foremothers by Cat Clark.

FFL remembers the contributions of the late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a Remarkable Pro-Life Woman^® who was assassinated on December 27, 2007.

Feminists for Life member purchases birthplace of Susan B. Anthony.

Feminists for Life believes that Women Deserve Better^® than Abortion.

Read FFL President Serrin Foster's Pro-Woman Answers to Pro-Choice Questions.^TM

Some in the media have accused the pro-life movement of being pro-woman merely as a strategy or tactic. That's not Feminists for Life. FFL President Serrin Foster responds.

Former FFL Board Chair Jessica O'Connor-Petts calls on FFL members and others to urge Amnesty International to reconsider its position on abortion (2007).

Weddington's Betrayal of Women, an op-ed on the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision by FFL President Serrin M. Foster.

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Read FFL President Serrin Foster's e-series Pro-Woman Answers to Pro-Choice Questions.^TM

Introduce yourself to pro-life feminist history.

Read Cat Clark's feminist history e-tutorial: Herstory of the Week.^TM

Read back issues of our magazine, The American Feminist.^®

Read speaker biographies and book FFL speakers for your upcoming event.

T-shirt iron-ons

• Feminist foremothers Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Rally for Resources (coming soon)

Download and distribute Feminists for Life's ads.

Spread the word by purchasing and distributing quantities of "Refuse to Choose" and "Say NO to the Status Quo" brochures.

Help her help herself by purchasing and distributing "You Have Better Choices" brochures in quantity.

Purchase FFL's other Covetable Stuff.^SM

Download FFL screensavers.

College student activists should also:

• read the Perception is Reality study,
• take FFL's Pregnancy Resource Survey (contact coordinator@ffloncampus),
• envision the ideal campus where abortion is unthinkable,
• advocate passage of "The Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Student Services Act",
• and contact coordinator@ffloncampus to get free tools!

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Last but not least, don't forget that membership counts. Become a Feminist for Life!

Help Feminists for Life grow!

It is imperative that we continue to grow Feminists for Life's membership so that, when we are asked on Capitol Hill or in interviews how large our membership is, it will better reflect the number of us who refuse to choose^® between women and children. It isn't enough to agree - membership counts!