Reply #99: I think it's almost impossible to equate the attitudes of people 150 years ago with modern politics [View All]

Many anti-slavery activists had some views that would be considered racist nowadays. Many campaigners for democracy never considered the possibility that women could vote. Etc.

As regards the direct question about whether a person nowadays can be both 'pro-life' and a feminist: yes, as individuals they can, and I know such people, thoug not many. However, I think it's almost impossible to be actively involved in modern political pro-life movements and to be a feminist. Firstly, most such movements come with 'traditional family values' packages that are profoundly anti-feminist. Secondly, they usually come with the implication that at best it is better to vote for a right-wing pro-life candidate than a liberal/left pro-choice candidate, or at worst that right-wing parties are always preferable as they are more likely to be pro-life. Right-wing parties and feminism, or any sort of equal rights, rarely go together. Thirdly, they are almost always focused *just* on the behaviour of women who have abortions, and are indifferent to other threats to prenatal and infant life: e.g. they rarely campaign for improved prenatal care, or express concern about the horrifying differences in infant mortality levels between rich and poor people,