During our educational and religious excursion to New England, we visited the Susan B. Anthony birthplace in Adams, Massachusetts. Not only did we learn about her life, but also about may other inspirational women leaders like Elizabeth Blackwell.
As America's first female physician, she was rejected by over a dozen medical school before she was finally accepted at Geneva Medical College but only as a prank. She persevered through much persecution including from those who assumed she was an abortionist.
I purchased the book "ProLife Feminisim Yesterday and Today" in which she states,
"The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. . .an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women."
These words, spoken in 1840 still ring true today. I spent the day protesting outside Dr. Emily's "Women's Health Pavilion." "Women's health" has become a catch phrase which normally includes many practices that do much more to harm than help women and their health.
It truly is a culture of death, with twisted ideas, ways of thinking and customs. As our main counselor pointed out to me today, you have to act like abortion is no big deal because that is how they think of it. You really have to be an actress because inside you are freaking out because it IS a big deal, but if you act like it you will scare the women off.
So may we be more like Elizabeth Blackwell and refuse to let bogus slogans or catch phrases define who we are.
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