Relationship To Other Movements
Pro-life feminists form a part of the anti-abortion movement rather than the feminist movement. During the second-wave era of the late 1960s and 1970s the tenets of the emerging group of pro-life feminists were rejected by mainstream feminists who held that for full participation in society, a woman's "moral and legal right to control her fertility" needed to be a fundamental principle. From their minority position, pro-life feminists said that mainstream feminists did not speak for all women.
Having failed to gain a respected position within mainstream feminism, pro-life feminists aligned themselves with other anti-abortion and right to life groups. This placement, according to Oaks, has eroded a feminist sense of identity separate from other pro-life groups, despite "pro-woman" arguments that are distinct from the "fetal rights" arguments put forward by other anti-abortion advocates.
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