First Things RSS Feed - Candace C. Crandall https://www.firstthings.com/author/candace-c-crandall en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:53:21 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/candace-c-crandall 60 Thirty Years of Empty Promises https://www.firstthings.com/article/2003/01/thirty-years-of-empty-promises https://www.firstthings.com/article/2003/01/thirty-years-of-empty-promises Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0500 In the long and arduous fight leading up to Roe v. Wade, the one thing feminists were most passionate about was their belief that unrestricted access to abortion was indispensable to achieving gender equality. Betty Friedan in 1972 promised that legalizing abortion would make women whole. Advocacy groups, including the National Organization for Women, the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (now the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League), and the President’s Advisory Council on the Status of Women, stood adamantly opposed to any limits, claiming regulation would violate a woman’s right to control her body.

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