“Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child, nor think of murdering one before its birth.”

— Victoria Woodhull

In an article in the West Virginia Evening Standard (1875) expressing her moral opposition to abortion

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American suffragist 1838–1927

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