Schlafly dated the modern pro-family movement to anti-ERA organizing, not to Roe

Evidence

Even Phyllis Schlafly, a key player in the antiabortion movement, did not center her political activism on the abortion issue in the initial stages of her career. In Schlafly’s mind, “the day we invented the pro-family movement” was not the day after Roe v. Wade but April 26, 1976—the day she brought more than one thousand people to Springfield, Illinois, for a demonstration against the Equal Rights Amendment. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 268

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the ‘immodesty panics’ reading that moral movements are mobilized around women’s roles rather than the ostensible issue. — connects to: Evangelicals adopted anti-abortion politics six years after Roe for political gain — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 255; Schlafly linked anti-communism with opposition to feminism in New Right ideology — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 240

Broader Connections

• Schlafly linked anti-communism with opposition to feminism in New Right ideology #complicates (0.70) — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 240