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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)

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The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.

Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere.

The rights of children, then, as individuals, begin while yet they are in fetal life. Children do not come into existence by any will or consent of their own.

Whoever has read the Weekly knows I hold abortion (except to save the life of the mother) to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder.

They cannot roll back the rising tide of reform... The world moves.

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