>Ken Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >For some reason the mention of a "Susan B Anthony" dollar stuck in my > brain as > >an "Alice B Sheldon" dollar. Susan Anthony is a person who I've never heard > >of. I'm almost tempted not to find out who she is or was to preserve a > nugget > >of delicious cognitive dissonance. A world in which governments put Alice > >Sheldon on the currency would be an interestingly different world from > the one > >we seem to be inhabiting.
Oh, you can still keep all the cognitive dissonance you'd like. Susan B. Anthony was one of the early US anti-abortion activists, along with Victoria Woodhull and most of the other major feminists of the time. Abortion let men escape from the responsibility for their actions....