Fifty years ago, Pat Goltz and the late Cathy Callaghan announced to the world the formation of a pro-woman, pro-life organization: Feminists for Life. Although they did not initially realize that they were not the first pro-life feminists — the suffragists beat them to it by more than a century! — the birth of FFL was a key turning point in the women’s movement and launched a half-century of education and advocacy for the most vulnerable. To mark FFL’s 50th Birthday, we are proud to announce the latest issue of The American Feminist: “Feminists for Life at Fifty.”
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New Welcome and Welcome Back Kits are now available!! Welcome Kit recipients will receive our “Say NO to the Status Quo: Women Deserve Better.com” bumper sticker, plus our latest magazine “Feminists for Life at Fifty” as part of your year’s subscription to our biannual magazine. You will also receive “First Wave Feminists” and “Pro-Woman Answers to Pro-Choice Questions™.” “Feminists for Life at Fifty” is only available to new and returning supporters for a minimum gift of $50.
New Welcome Back Kit recipients will receive our “Say NO to the Status Quo: Women Deserve Better.com” bumper sticker, “Feminists for Life at Fifty” and “Sheer Joy”.
Issues of The American Feminist before 2010 are available as PDF files. You will need to download a free copy of Adobe Reader® to view them. The more recent issues are available for purchase beit-mirkahat.com. Shop FFL’s Covetable StuffSM.
Issues to purchase
This issue of The American Feminist is all about family, specifically the “Sheer Joy” children bring us. We invited you to share your funniest, sweetest, tenderest, and most precious memories. You delivered with an outpouring of moving stories, photographs, and children’s drawings, creating this very special edition of our biannual magazine, in advance of our 50th Anniversary. Buy your copy here.
This issue, appropriately titled FOREVER Priceless℠,” gives parents and teens the tools they need to protect them from predators and the spectrum of abuse and violence that they employ, including abortion. Buy your copy here.
In this issue, we celebrate the resilience of women, starting with the cover. Johanna Young, who earlier shared her heartbreaking story of domestic violence and coerced abortion, is featured while carrying Sheridan. This iconic image includes her tattoo. (Yes, she has FFL’s logo on her hand!) Read her story and more! Buy your copy here
Feminists for Life writes women back into history with our latest issue of The American Feminist, “Pedaling Toward Freedom.” We will tell you what you never learned in most textbooks. Buy your copy here.
Read a sample article here: Remembering Black Suffragists
Our 2020 calendar is full of historical quotes, images and facts. This is no longer available for purchase.
Based on our groundbreaking resources site, Women Deserve Better, this intriguing issue details the ways to best help women WORK, LEARN, LIVE, and LOVE better. Click here to order!
Read here a sample article: Love: When Your Child Has Extra Needs
This timely issue of The American Feminist addresses the abortion industry’s insidious strategy to shift the conversation about abortion from a necessary evil to a moral good by normalizing and sanitizing the violent reality of abortion. Click here to order!
Read a sample article here: Target Africa
This essential issue of The American Feminist is one of the most hopeful, revealing, and healing documents to come out of the #MeToo movement as we connect the dots in this culture of violence as only FFL can in our unique pro-woman, pro-life voice. Click to purchase!
Read a sample article here: Finding Your Voice to Self-Worth
In this historic issue, FFL President Serrin Foster asks Sue Ellen Browder, author of Subverted – How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement, to reveal the details of that very moment that split feminists for abortion from feminists for life — and answers the key question: was Alice Paul there? Also included are the perspectives of men in the wake of the second wave of feminism and the most ridiculous questions we have received for being both feminist and pro-life. Click to order!
Read a sample article here: Why Men Can (and Should) be Pro-Life Feminists
On January 22, 1973, the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions eliminated the legal protection from abortion for women, and the responsibility of children disproportionately shifted to women. In this insightful issue of The American Feminist, we take the next step to systematically look at poverty and model resources, as well as solutions, and come closer to achieving the unrealized vision of our first wave feminists, who sought to address the root causes of abortion. FFL examines the primary reasons reported by women today: the lack of support on campus and in the workplace and lack of paternal support — and outlines urgently needed solutions. Click to order!
Read a sample article here: Dads Make the Difference of a Lifetime
In one of our most powerful issues of The American Feminist yet, FFL President Serrin Foster reveals and analyzes Planned Parenthood’s internal training documents. This special issue explores And Then There Were None, founded by Abby Johnson, and her outreach program to former abortion clinic workers. We share their personal testimonials and how they finally escaped the abortion industry. Click to purchase!
Read a sample article here: Coerced Into Unwanted Abortions
Features personal stories about the spectrum of reproductive loss and grief, including miscarriage, infertility, stillbirth, early infant loss, adoption, pregnancy from rape, and abortion — and how to find hope and healing. Click to purchase!
Read a sample article here: Mourning Miscarriage
Learn about our rich pro-life feminist history straight from the suffragists themselves! The first wave feminists were, without known exception, unequivocally opposed to abortion, and we carry on their legacy. (Also included in your Welcome Kit!) Click to purchase!
You can find the kinds of articles found in the magazine in our Feminist Foremothers section
Our issue of The American Feminist, “A Crying Shame,” explores the impact of shaming birthmothers, rape survivors, parents of large families, poor mothers, pregnant and parenting students, and those who were driven to abortion. A psychologist illuminates the important differences among guilt, fear, and shame. We also shame the shamers who hurt and sometimes kill women and children around the globe in the name of “honor.” Click here to purchase
Read a sample article here: Shaming Poor Mothers
Covers new, revolutionary, and best practices in the pro-woman, pro-life movement. The edition serves as a primer to those new to our movement and will inspire everyone to reach for better solutions that will go viral! Click here to purchase!
Read a sample article here: Employers Meeting the Needs
Issues to Download or Purchase
NEWLY UPDATED: Pro-Woman Answers to Pro-Choice Questions: Feminists for Life is dedicated to bringing peace to America’s painful, decades-long abortion conflict. “Since 1973, it’s been the same thing. One side of the hotly contested abortion wars yells, ‘What about the woman?’ Instead of yelling back, ‘What about the baby?’ Feminists for Life answers the question,” says FFL President Serrin Foster. “It’s hard to talk when there’s all that distance.”
“Pro-Woman Answers to Pro-Choice QuestionsTM” is included in all our gift for a $50 donation. Donate today!
2012: Metamorphosis: “Metamorphosis”, a 36-page issue of The American Feminist, gives insight into why people become pro-life feminists — after being one or neither. FFL President Serrin Foster explains why “individual evolutions can start peaceful revolutions” and provides practical tools to help welcome more people to our peaceful, holistic, solution-oriented movement. Serrin also reveals the stunning truth you need to know and share about attorney Sarah “Weddington’s Betrayal of Women” when she argued in support of Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court. Stories from a dozen women will inform you about what triggered their conversions — including FFL’s own Vice President Sally Winn and Editor Jewels Green, who was pressured into an abortion as a teen and subsequently worked in an abortion clinic for years before her “A-ha” moment.
Hard Cases, Exceptional Choices: A dozen Remarkable Pro-Life Women® who faced life’s toughest challenges share their firsthand accounts of their “Hard Cases, Exceptional Choices.” In addition, we share answers to the most controversial and important questions of our day, including “What about rape–including statutory rape, incest and rape–disability, and life of the mother?” It includes a new thought-provoking ad in English and Spanish about children with special needs, and another of a woman conceived in rape.
Fall/Winter 2011: Forward Into Light Features forty pages of insightful articles examining coerced abortion, pornography, stalking, intimate partner violence, human trafficking, and sexual assault.
Spring 2011: Raising Expectations in the WorkplaceProvides the tools for employees to evaluate their workplaces, pregnant women to protect themselves from discrimination, and caregivers to learn how the Family and Medical Leave Act applies. FFL highlights workplace options that provide flexibility for parents and benefits to employers.
Illuminates our rich history with new resources for activists and historians.
Issues Available to Download
Winter 2010-2011: FFL Activists Change Campuses, Change the World
Highlights our advocacy and initiatives on campus through FFL’s flagship College Outreach Program, filled with powerful personal stories by pregnant and parenting students and birthmothers, and celebrates our recent legislative victories.
2009-2010: Raising Kids on a Shoestring
A holistic national guide filled with free and frugal resources, smart and creative solutions, and practical support that pregnant women, expectant fathers, and parents deserve.
See our new resources site, WomenDeserveBetter.com!
Fall-Winter 2008: What does She Face on Campus?
Chaunie’s Journey | FFLU: Our Dream Campus | FFL unveils seven new speaker videos on YouTube
Spring 2008: Perception is Reality
The results of FFL’s ground-breaking survey of college students about pregnancy and parenting resources.
Fall 2007: Say NO to the Status QuoTM
Six Remarkable Pro-Life Women
Spring 2007: The Truth About Susan B. Anthony
Did One of America’s First Feminists Oppose Abortion?
The American Feminist’s® January 2007 Activism Kit! We need you — our agent of change, as a grassroots activist — to proclaim Feminists for Life’s message that Women Deserve Better® than abortion. You can help make sure FFL’s message is heard and help us redirect the debate toward women-centered solutions.
FFL offers ways we can change the culture to embrace and support mothers.
Summer-Fall 2004: FFL on Campus – The Revolution Continues
Feminists for Life looks back over the many successes of our ground-breaking College Outreach Program.
Spring 2004: Our Pro-Woman, Pro-Life Legacy
Feminists for Life Celebrates our Pro-Woman Pro-Life Legacy.
Fall/Winter 2003 : Rewarding Motherhood
Women as mothers in all ages and stages are celebrated by Feminists for Life of America in the new issue of The American Feminist®.
Summer 2003: Remarkable Pro-Life Women III
Feminists for Life celebrates the many accomplishments of pro-life women.
Spring 2003: Pro-Woman Answers to Pro-Choice Questions
An invaluable tool in helping to answer pro-choice questions from a pro-woman, pro-life perspective
A thirty year reflection of its impact on women
Fall 2002: Hope for the Future
Help us celebrate FFL’s 30th Anniversary with this issue dedicated to FFL’s past, present and future!
Spring/Summer 2002: Crimes Against Women Around the World
FFL examines international crimes against women in this special double issue.
Feminists for Life provides valuable strategies to parents on how to survive on a shoestring.
Summer 2001: Women Deserve Better
Feminists for Life presents women-centered solutions to systematically eliminate the reasons that drive women to abortion.
Spring 2001: Remarkable Pro-Life Men
Feminists for Life honors the many contributions of pro-life men.
Winter 2000-2001: Remarkable Pro-Life Women II
Feminists for Life honors the many contributions of pro-life women.
Fall 2000: Two Faces of the Internet
As women have become the primary users of the Internet, accessing the benefits is as important as avoiding danger.
Summer 2000: Human Commodities for Sale
One hundred and thirty-two years after slavery and indentured servitude were outlawed, people are still for sale around the world, and in the U.S.
Feminists for Life proudly continues 200 years of pro-life feminism.
Winter 1999-2000: Embracing All Life
Feminists for Life defends life from conception until the natural end of life
Feminists for Life alerts students, parents, alumni, faculty, and staff to potential risks on campus
Summer 1999: Is Life Always Worth Living?
Feminists for Life examines assisted suicide and euthanasia
Spring 1999: Unplanned Pregnancy
Feminists for Life reclaims the meaning of “choice”
Winter 1998-1999: Remarkable Pro-Life Women
Feminists for Life celebrates the many accomplishments of pro-life women
Fall 1998: Victory Over Violence
Feminists for Life examines how women triumph over violence
Women and men struggle to meet the conflicting demands of work and family
Spring 1998: The Bitter Price of Choice
Twenty-five years after Roe v. Wade, millions of women and men mourn our missing children
Winter 1997-1998: She’ll Ask, Don’t Tell
Women have a right to be informed about abortion, the most common form of surgery in America.
