"Many women who would be shocked at the very thought of killing their children after birth, deliberately destroy them previously. If there is any difference in the actual crime, we should be glad to have those who practice the latter, point it out. The truth of the matter is that it is just as much a murder to destroy life in its embryotic condition, as it is to destroy it after the fully developed form is attained, for it is the self-same life that is taken... Can anyone suggest a better than to so situate woman, that she may never be obligated to conceive a life she does not desire shall be continuous?"
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AbolitionistsLabor activistsFeminists from the United StatesSocialists from the United StatesPoliticians from Ohio
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In an anti-abortion essay titled When Is It Not Murder to Take a Life? published in the Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly newspaper on October 8, 1870
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Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927) was an American suffragist and, in 1872, the first woman nominated for U.S. president.
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