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| Name | Phyllis Stewart Schlafly |
| Born | 1924-08-15 |
| Birthplace | St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
| Died | 2016-09-05 |
| Nationality | American |
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| URL | https://Persagen.com/docs/phyllis_schlafly.html |
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| Source URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly |
| Date published | 2021-08-05 |
| Curator | Dr. Victoria A. Stuart, Ph.D. |
| Curation date | 2021-08-05 |
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| Summary | Phyllis Stewart Schlafly (born Phyllis McAlpin Stewart; August 15, 1924 - September 5, 2016) was an American attorney, conservative activist and author. She held paleoconservative social and political views, opposed feminism, gay rights and abortion, and successfully campaigned against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She was opposed in turn by moderates and liberals for her attitudes on sex, gender roles, homosexuality and a number of other issues. |
| Main article | Eagle Forum |
| Other associations | American Enterprise Institute.html |
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| Name | Phyllis Stewart Schlafly |
| Born | 1924-08-15 |
| Birthplace | St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
| Died | 2016-09-05 |
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Phyllis Stewart Schlafly (born Phyllis McAlpin Stewart; August 15, 1924 - September 5, 2016) was an American attorney, conservative activist and author. She held paleoconservative social and political views, opposed feminism, gay rights and abortion, and successfully campaigned against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She was opposed in turn by moderates and liberals for her attitudes on sex, gender roles, homosexuality and a number of other issues. More than three million copies of her self-published book, A Choice Not an Echo (1964), a polemic against Republican leader Nelson Rockefeller, were sold or distributed for free. Schlafly co-authored books on national defense and was critical of arms control agreements with the Soviet Union. In 1972, Schlafly founded the Eagle Forum, a conservative political interest group, and remained its chairwoman and CEO until her death in 2016 while staying active in traditional conservative causes.
[RewireNewsGroup.com, 2021-09-08] How Evangelical and Catholic Women Organized to Gut 'Roe' and Undermine Equality. I grew up in the religious right and have seen firsthand how rallying against abortion became a winning strategy for conservatives.
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One thing I quickly learned was that, unlike right-wing culture warriors, the left doesn't have much of a functional grassroots organizing practice. Or rather, the left has good, solid organizing on the local grassroots level, especially when working on issues that the Democratic Party isn't willing to take on directly. This is queer organizing, this is the early days of Black Lives Matter and similar groups, this is the Sunrise Movement, this is ACT UP. But once progressive issues become more mainstream and moderate, the organizing praxis becomes scattershot and reactionary at best.
Conservatives built a solid tradition of grassroots strategy in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely thanks to the work of Phyllis Schlafly and her Eagle Forum mailing list, which proved that angry conservative housewives who devoted their free time to hounding local officials and building a patriarchy-friendly voting bloc were highly effective. That strategy successfully defeated the Equal Rights Amendment and provided Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority with a blueprint for how to activate the religious right: get the vote out and make constituents call in about specific issues to influence elected officials' votes. After a few flops in attempts to manufacture crises around which the religious right could coalesce, the leadership of the Moral Majority found that framing abortion access post-Roe v. Wade as "on-demand" abortion worked well to get evangelicals angry and voting.
Prior to 1978, the evangelicals were largely neutral or pro-choice when it came to abortion and birth control. They refused to side with the Catholics on this issue, urging that "therapeutic" abortion was an essential part of health care for those who needed abortions to save their own lives or prevent added trauma following rape or incest. But Schlafly's activation of a joint coalition of Catholic and evangelical women voters clued in the religious right that perhaps opposing abortion was the way to go on winning the White House against incumbent Jimmy Carter.
They tried it, and it worked - Reagan got elected, and the conservative strategy was set for the next 40 years and beyond.
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