Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

thumb| Elizabeth Ann Fox-Genovese (née Fox; May 28, 1941 – January 2, 2007) was an American historian best known for her works on women and society in the Antebellum South. A Marxist early on in her career, she later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a primary voice of the conservative women's movement. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2003. Quotes No amount of past oppression can justify women's oppression of the most vulnerable among us. Quoted in Robert P. George, Conscience and Its Enemies (2013) pt. 4, ch. 27, p. 249 Quotes about Fox-Genovese At the heart of her doubts about secular liberalism (and what she described as "radical, upscale feminism") was its embrace of abortion and its (continuing) dalliance with euthanasia. At first, she went along with abortion, albeit reluctantly, believing that women's rights to develop their talents and control their destinies required its legal availability. But Betsey (as she was known by her friends) was not one who could avert her eyes from inconvenient facts. The central fact about abortion is that it is the deliberate killing of a developing child in the womb. For Betsey, euphemisms such as "products of conception," "termination of pregnancy," "privacy," and "choice" ultimately could not hide that fact. She came to see that to countenance abortion is not to respect women's "privacy" or liberty; it is to suppose that some people have the right to decide whether others will live or die. Robert P. George, Conscience and Its Enemies (2013) pt. 4, ch. 27, pp. 248-249 External links Category:1941 births Category:2007 deaths Category:Catholics from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Historians from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women born in the 1940s