Activists on both sides of the abortion wars see themselves as inheritors of the early women’s movement—a history that’s become more contested than ever under Trump.
Both progressive feminists and anti-abortion advocates lay claim to the early suffragists—a sign that feminist history is still being written, reports @emmaogreen
Always read @emmaogreen: "In this tug-of-war over the suffragist legacy, both sides airbrush the parts of history that don’t fit their narrative, cramming suffragists into ideological boxes that simply didn’t exist in their time."