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Abortion Editorializing

The opinionated opening sentence, "She was mistakenly remembered being adamant in opposition to abortion." must be changed. The statement is excessive editorializing and is not supported by the quotes given. On the contrary, the quotes strongly suggest the opposite. In particular:

"The truth of the matter is that it is just as much a murder to destroy life in its embryotic condition, as it is to destroy it after the fully developed form is attained, for it is the self-same life that is taken."

The above quote is quite clear and far stronger and clearer than the tangential final quote:

"Can any one suggest a better than to so situate woman, that she may never be obligated to conceive a life she does not desire shall be continuous?"

This does not not support the opinionated opening sentence.

Furthermore, there is no reference for, "She is mistakenly remembered..." This is another unsupported assertion. Who?

The opening sentence should let the quotes speak for themselves and be changed to:

"Woodhull has expressed thoughts on the ideas of abortion."

The later sentence should remove the "But".

"Later on the same essay she asks:” Dunnpm (talk) 10:50, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Victoria Woodhull (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927), was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement. She ran for President of the United States in the 1872 election. An activist for women's rights and labor reforms, Woodhull was also an advocate of "free love", by which she meant the freedom to marry, divorce and bear children without social restriction or government interference. "They cannot roll back the rising tide of reform," she often said. "The world moves." She twice went from rags to riches, her first fortune being made on the road as a magnetic healer before she joined the spiritualist movement in the 1870s. This formal photographic portrait of Woodhull was taken by Mathew Brady around 1870.

Photograph credit: Mathew Brady; restored by Adam Cuerden

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