We found this book review very worthwhile.
Ellen McCormack was one of the most well-known pro-life activists of the 1970s. She was a wife, a mother, a homemaker, and a two-time presidential candidate. Although her name might be unfamiliar to young pro-lifers, many pro-lifers of an older generation fondly recall her 1976 campaign for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. This campaign is nicely chronicled in Jane Gilroy’s new book A Shared Vision. Gilroy gives some well-deserved attention to the accomplishments of a pro-life pioneer. She also details a presidential campaign that, despite taking place 36 years ago, still contains important lessons for today’s pro-life activists.
Gilroy paints the early history of the pro-life movement in New York, where Ellen McCormack was born and raised. New York became a hotbed of pro-life activism in the late 1960s, when feminist groups including NOW and NARAL launched an organized effort to liberalize the state’s abortion laws. This motivated many well-intentioned, but politically inexperienced people to join the pro-life cause. A Shared Vision chronicles how these new pro-life activists lost their innocence very quickly.
Hit the link for the complete review/essay. Go here Ellen McCormack, Anti-Abortion Presidential Candidate, Dies at 84 for a NY Times article when Mrs. McCormack died in March, 2011.
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