QUOTE: No matter how it is worded or performed, abortion hurts
women. This won’t stop until women stand up in unison and say, ‘This is
unacceptable. We deserve better.’ Lack of emotional and financial resources are
the real undue burden and abortion will never lift that. [Serrin
Foster, president of Feminists For Life, press release, (June 28, 2000).]
AUTHOR: Serrin
Foster has led Feminists for Life since 1994. Under her leadership FFL
successfully advocated benefits for poor and pregnant women through the State
Child Health Insurance Program, defeated the mandatory "family cap"
and other punitive child exclusion provisions in welfare reform, and worked to
prevent poverty and coerced abortions due to threats to withhold child support
through passage of the Enhanced Child Support Act of 1995.
Serrin served on the
National Taskforce Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, which worked to
pass the Violence Against Women Act. In 2003, Serrin testified before the U.S.
House Judiciary Committee in support of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act,
also known as "Laci and Conner’s Law."
The creator of the
Women Deserve Better® campaign has been an outspoken opponent of pregnancy
discrimination and has focused on developing on-campus resources and support
for underserved pregnant and parenting students.
Feminists for Life
has been leading a revolution on campus to educate students at highest risk of
abortion about our rich pro-life feminist heritage and redirect the debate
toward woman-centered solutions. Serrin’s landmark speech, "The Feminist
Case Against Abortion," has been recognized as one of the
"Great Speeches in History" in an anthology on Women's Rights.
In 1997, Serrin
moderated the first Pregnancy Resource Forum in the country at Georgetown
University. FFL’s Pregnancy Resource Forums became a model for the country and
have helped to redirect the debate toward woman-centered solutions. In 2010
FFL’s Pregnancy Resource Forums became the basis for Pregnancy Assistance Fund
grants awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, that will
put into hyper-drive new pro-woman solutions on campus.
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