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Susan B. Anthony

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In 1979, Susan B. Anthony was honored by a U. S. dollar coin, the first of several attempts to introduce a non-silver dollar coin. It was unpopular, because it was too similar in size and appearance to a quarter. Originally, it had been intended to be an eleven-sided polygon, but the makers of coin-operated vending machines insisted that it be round. More recent [[United States dollar coins]], such as those depicting [[Sacagawea]] and [[George Washington]], have been tinted a gold color to make them visually distinctive.
She alongside several of her fellow [[Suffragette]]s also was noted to be a staunch opponent of abortificants, <ref>[http://www.godlessprolifers.org/library/wallace4.html ''Susan B. Anthony opposed abortion'']</ref><ref>''"There is no question that she deplored the practice of abortion, as did every one of her colleagues in the suffrage movement."'' [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/opinion/13schiff.html?_r=1&oref=slogin ''Desperately Seeking Susan''] [[New York Times]] (13 October 2006)</ref><ref>[http://www.feministsforlife.org/history/foremoth.htm ''Voices of our Feminist Foremothers''] Feminists for Life</ref> with her writing that her sister will ultimately pay the price for "the day she forces nature", in reference to an abortion the latter recently had, has been harshly critical of those in support of abortion (or "restellism" as it was called back then), refusing advertisements for restellism for ''Revolution'', her Suffrage newspaper, and gave a speech in 1875 declaring "When the office of maternity shall be held sacred … then, and not till then, will this earth see a new order of men and women, prone to good rather evil."<ref>http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2017/05/susan_b_anthony_anti_abortion_heroine_how_activists_are_claiming_her_for.html</ref>
Anthony is one of only 102 Americans to be part of the [[Hall of Fame for Great Americans]].
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