The "First Lady of American Conservatism," conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly, sat down with two members of the UGACR Executive Board, Chairman Katie Flanigan and PR Director Jeff Emanuel, on Saturday morning and discussed several issues, including the state of the pro-life and feminist movements, the state of the courts, and immigration.Mrs. Schlafly, the President of the national volunteer organization Eagle Forum and author of several books on fighting feminism and other conservative issues, has been a leader of the pro-family movement since 1972, when she began tehe successful ten-year battle against the principal legislative goal of the radical feminists, called the Equal Rights Amendment.
An articulate and successful opponent of the radical feminist movement who was named one of the 100 most important women of the 20th century by the Ladies' Home Journal, Mrs. Schlafly had a lot to say about current events in her conversation with the UGACRs. She called President Bush's digging in on the Dubai port takeover a "Harriet Meiers moment," openly questioned whether the Republicans can muster a candidate for 2008 that will be strong enough to overcome a united Democrat base, scoffed at the idea that the Supreme Court was anything other than still solidly left-leaning, and argued that the blanket abortion ban on the floor in several state legislatures, and recently passed by South Dakota, could "set the pro-life movement back 30 years."Mrs. Schlafly lauded Emanuel and Flanigan, as well as CRs everywhere, for their "great work" and "difference-making activism." She encouraged them to "keep fighting" against feminism, multiculturalism, and other "destructive forces on campus and in society," saying that the battle which she started in the 1960s is ongoing, but that thanks to the efforts of "young people like you," we are "gaining ground" on an ultimate victory for the American way.
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