Unlike several other 19th C. womens’ rights leaders, Elizabeth Cady Stanton most certainly opposed abortion – she considered it little better than infanticide and wrote about it at length. Also, she most certainly associated with the Republican Party. As those two points are the ones most lefty feminists specifically identify as the most unsavory about Sarah Palin, the choice of Stanton for the quote suggests ignorance and arrogance on the part of the chooser.

Thanks for playing.

This was a woman who said, “the Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.”

She also argued that the “whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.”

Perhaps we can recognize that her message transcended the petty partisan politics that is indicated by this post, and that her message is owned by women everywhere, not by liberals or conservatives.