Susan B. Anthony (womens rights movement)

"Of primary importance to Anthony was the granting to woman the right to her own body which she saw as an essential element for the prevention of unwanted pregnancies, using abstinence as the method. In The Revolution, she wrote about the subject, arguing that, instead of attempting to pass a law against abortion, the root cause should be addressed. An anti-abortion law would be, she wrote, like "mowing off the top of the noxious weed, while the root remains."Anthony continued:

"Guilty? Yes, no matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh! thrice guilty is he who, for selfish gratification, heedless of her prayers, indifferent to her fate, drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime."

(quickly retrieved from Wikipedia)