Juliet Stillman Severance

Juliet Stillman Severance was an American physician and feminist of the 19 th century. She opposed slavery, abortion and the death penalty. She was the leader of several Labour organizations.

In the biographical dictionary, "Women of the Century" (1893), she is called "a radical of the radicals" and also "a model mother and a housekeeper".

She studied and practised alternative Medicine, for his discontent of traditional Medicine. She campaigned for women rights and the right to life of the unborn child.

She believed that marriage and motherhood should be affirming choices for women. In her article, "Is the Present Marriage System a Failure ?", published in the liberal newspaper "Universe", from Chicago, at 28 August 1869, she states : "Marriage should be a soul-union, not a curse ... not a merging of one life into another, but ... two individuals uniting their lifes for mutual good and the good of humanity. It may be in reproduction, or it may be in giving birth to higher, noble ideas, and outworking them in noble deeds and great achievements ... There is not child in a hundred that is bigotten with the consent of the mother. As the present marriage system makes the man the owner of the woman - her legal master - she is expected to submit to gratification ... When the marriage system is what it should be, and woman controls in these matters, instead of man ... Restellism (abortion) shall cease, because there will be no demand for it."

External Link

* [http://www.feministsforlife.org/taf/1998/fall/Fall98.pdf Profile of Juliet Stillman Severance]