Madeleine McDowell

May 14, 2024 | fltimes.com | Monica Klem |Madeleine McDowell |Alan Brignall

I read “Pity for Evil” after pro-life and anti-abortion activist Kathy Peters of Waterloo called my attention to it. On Feb. 19, Kathy and her husband, Don, drove to Massachusetts to celebrate Susan B. Anthony’s annual birthday party held in Anthony’s hometown. Peters told me that “A dear friend purchased her birthplace some years ago. It is now a museum.

Dec 19, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Monica Klem |Madeleine McDowell |Rachel Lu |Colleen A. Sheehan

In 1874, two Bostonian women named Bessie Greene and Lilian Freeman Clarke founded an institution for expectant mothers. Known as the Society for Helping Destitute Mothers and Infants (SHDMI), it embraced an approach to charity that was truly American, in a Tocquevillian sense. The SHDMI wanted to help desperate women. But it also placed a high value on both moral responsibility and associational life.

Nov 7, 2023 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Monica Klem |Madeleine McDowell

Monica Klem is an independent scholar based in Northern California. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Pepperdine University. Madeleine McDowell is a historian of the nineteenth century whose research has focused on the religious, cultural, and intellectual history of the English-speaking world. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and lives in Sacramento with her husband and young children. They are sisters and the co-authors of Pity For Evil.

Oct 6, 2023 | encounterbooks.com | Monica Klem |Madeleine McDowell

In the years following the Civil War, pioneers in the women’s rights movement, women’s medical education, and public-private charitable partnerships joined forces to reduce the incidence of abortion in America. As alumni of the abolitionist movement, they analyzed abortion in ways that resembled their earlier critiques of slavery. Abortion, too, was a structural problem. A self-evidently evil act, it was sustained by the quack doctors and unscrupulous press that it enriched.