This is what I have to say to people who want to "ban Abortion and Birth control"- Stay out of my town, my block, my yard, my house. Stay out of my uterus. I pay taxes just like you fundies, there for I have the right to choose what I DO to MY BODY. You pay for my body, you can tell me what to do.

That simple.

If I want a tattoo...will you cut my throat?

If I want to convert to Islam...will you drag me into the street and stone me?

If I want to become a lesbian...will you tell me I am worthless of a person then I was 10 minutes before I became a lesbian?

If I want to have an abortion from an unplanned pregnancy, rape, or incest, will you tell me know, deal with it?

I hope not. I don't come into your kitchens and tell you how disgusting the food that you are eating is, I don’t tell you that the hours of TV you ingest are worthless and vapid.

I didn't think so.

So look beyond yourself, you might see 5.9 billion other people staring back at you.

-A Mind in Peril

As a member of Feminists For Life since the mid-1990s, I can tell you that its "opposition" to certain forms of birth control has more to do with the fact that some forms of birth control are not contraceptives, but DO function as abortifacients.

“Is birth control an abortion?”

“Definitely not. An abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun.”

---Planned Parenthood pamphlet

August 1963

Past president of Feminists For Life, Rosemary Bottcher, spoke openly about contraception when she criticized the American Left for its failure to take a stand against abortion:

“The same people who wax hysterical at the thought of executing, after countless appeals, a criminal convicted of some revolting crime would have insisted on his mother’s unconditional right to have him killed while he was still innocent.

“The same people who organized a boycott of the Nestle Company for its marketing of infant formula in underdeveloped lands would have approved of the killing of those exploited infants only a few months before.

“The same people who talk incessantly of human rights are willing to deny the most helpless and vulnerable of all human beings the most important right of all.

“Apparently these people do not understand the difference between contraception and abortion,” concluded Bottcher. “Their arguments defending abortion would be perfectly reasonable if they were talking about contraception. When they insist upon ‘reproductive freedom’ and ‘motherhood by choice’ they forget that ‘pregnant’ means ‘being with child.’ A pregnant woman has already reproduced; she is already a mother.”

Writer and activist Jay Sykes, who led Eugene McCarthy’s 1968 antiwar campaign in Wisconsin and later served as head of the state’s American Civil Liberties Union, wrote a "Farewell to Liberalism." Sykes cited several areas of disagreement and disillusionment, then added, "It is on the abortion issue that the moral bankruptcy of contemporary liberalism is most clearly exposed." He said that liberals’ arguments in support of abortion "could, without much refinement, be used to justify the legalization of infanticide.”

In her essay, “Life and Peace,” Juli Loesch wrote: “In a revealing article published in Seven Days, Michelle Magar suggests that the New Right’s relationship with Right to Life has been ‘more a marriage of convenience than true love.’ She suggests that the anti-abortion position adds ‘a certain moral luster’ to the New Right, which otherwise has a distinctly different set of priorities (threatening war for the possession of Persian Gulf oil, and so forth). Magar points out that, in a practical sense, the New Right’s concern for the unborn gives it access to the ‘grassroots anti-abortion network of the Catholic Church—a ready-made constituency which they had so far never been able to win.’”

If you read pro-life feminist anthologies such as Pro-Life Feminism: Different Voices, or Pro-Life Feminism: Yesterday and Today, you'll find pro-life feminists openly discussing contraception.

“The press has been cautioned about its bent toward stereotyping pro-lifers,” noted columnist Nat Hentoff, a liberal Jewish atheist, in 1992. “...many readers and viewers have a decidedly limited sense of the diversity of pro-lifers. Feminists For Life of America, for example, includes women who came out of the civil rights and anti-war movements and now work for what they call ‘a consistent ethic of life.’...(then Feminists For Life president) Rachel MacNair has been arrested at least 17 times—for protesting against nuclear plants and nuclear weapons...”

Gays Against Abortion (now known as PLAGAL, or the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians) was formed in 1991. They issued a statement:

“We acknowledge that, from conception, the fetus is a human being entitled to basic rights, including the right to life. We hold that abortion denies that right and destroys that human being. We know first hand, from homophobia, what it is to have our rights denied...Like homophobia, abortion tries to get rid of the persons who are considered undesirable...We volunteer time and energy to pro-life pregnancy centers and pro-life agencies...”

Similarly, in the May 1992 issue of Harmony: Voices for a Just Future, in an article entitled, “Coming Out of the Closet for Life,” Donna Marie Kearney wrote: “It is difficult to understand why so many gay and lesbian people can support the so-called ‘woman’s right’ to abortion. While living as oppressed people, they are blind to the subversion of the rights of the unborn, the weakest and most powerless among us.”

Kearney is a lesbian Christian peace activist, a member of the Faith and Resistance Community, and has been arrested in protest against nuclear weapons storage, and arrested along with Daniel Berrigan and others for trespassing at a Planned Parenthood building.

According to George McKenna in a 1995 article entitled "Abortion: A Lincolnian Position", which originally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Feminists For Life supports the entire feminist agenda, except abortion rights.

When I heard Serrin Foster, Executive Director of Feminists For Life, speak at UC Berkeley several years ago, I asked her if FFL supports LGBT rights. She told me FFL works with PLAGAL on a regular basis.

In These Times, a progressive political newspaper in Chicago observed in the late 1980s: “Our reaction to scenes of anti-abortion activists engaging in civil disobedience outside of clinics is similar to that of many on the Left: ‘What are THEY doing using OUR tactics? One major factor may be uncomfortable for many of us to admit: that many of them ARE us.’”