[Mb-civic] Nominee's Wife Is A Feminist After Her Own Heart - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Nominee's Wife Is A Feminist After Her Own Heart

By Hanna Rosin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 22, 2005; Page C01

In 1995 Jane Sullivan walked into the tiny downtown office of Feminists 
for Life, a group she'd heard about from a friend. Serrin Foster was 
staffing the front desk and explained to her what they were about: The 
group was a kind of updated antiabortion group that concentrated more on 
"prevention than rhetoric." It was started in the '70s by some "hippie 
anti-nuke, anti-death penalty activists," including two women who had 
been kicked out of a National Organization for Women meeting for saying 
they were antiabortion.

Sullivan's response was the same as that of many women who discover the 
group after searching for someplace that could contain all their various 
beliefs: "I've found my home," Foster recalls her saying.

By the most extreme stereotypes of the political landscape, being a 
committed, self-described feminist and being strongly antiabortion are 
irreconcilable opposites. But throughout her life, Sullivan, who became 
the wife of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts, has lived in that 
small slice of the Venn diagram where these two circles overlap. She was 
not available for comment for this story.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/21/AR2005072102500.html?nav=hcmodule

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