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Commonplace Book #214

John Fea   |  April 23, 2022 Leave a Comment

The radical feminists’ assertion that a woman has absolute property in her body provoked mirth from those who, like Betsey [Fox Genovese], knew that the modern Left had arisen to oppose the bourgeois theory of absolute property in anything. Betsey steadily hardened her line against abortion while she maintained unsparing compassion for the unmarried young or poor pregnant women who felt trapped. She spent years as a volunteer in community groups that cared for pregnant teenagers, poor mothers and their children, and battered wives.

Eugene Genovese, Miss Betsey: A Memoir of Marriage (2009), 80.

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