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She led in recognizing the importance of gender as an issue in the 1970s, and correctly predicted what followed for 50 years. She was instrumental in making the [[Republican Party]] [[pro-life]] (which it was not in 1973 when ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' was rendered). On June 24, 2022, a [[U.S. Supreme Court]] majority comprised of Republican-nominated Justices observed that [[abortion]] is not in the [[U.S. Constitution]] and thereby overturned ''[[Roe v. Wade]]''.
She led in recognizing the importance of gender as an issue in the 1970s, and correctly predicted what followed for 50 years. She was instrumental in making the [[Republican Party]] [[pro-life]] (which it was not in 1973 when ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' was rendered). On June 24, 2022, a [[U.S. Supreme Court]] majority comprised of Republican-nominated Justices observed that [[abortion]] is not in the [[U.S. Constitution]] and thereby overturned ''[[Roe v. Wade]]''.
''The [[New York Times]]'' wrote about Phyllis Schlafly:
{{Cquote|I was struck by how their stories echoed tales of conservative political awakening. Until the rise of Mr. [[Trump]], wave after wave of right-wing Republican activism was driven by comfortable but morally scandalized suburbanites, particularly suburban women. Shaken by what they saw as liberal attacks on beloved institutions — family, church, law enforcement, private property — they organized politically, and found meaning and community in it.
This phenomenon long predates the Tea Party movement that so galvanized Republican voters for the 2010 midterm elections. In her 2001 study, “Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right,” Lisa McGirr described how Orange County, Calif., became ground zero for militant conservatism in the early 1960s: “At living room bridge clubs, at backyard barbecues, and at kitchen coffee klatches, the middle-class men and women of Orange County ‘awakened’ to what they perceived as the threats of communism and liberalism.”
Campaigning to save the nuclear family from the depredations of the Equal Rights Amendment, Phyllis Schlafly induced housewives to become local activists.
“These were local women whom most politicians feared to alienate,” wrote Mrs. Schlafly’s biographer, Donald Critchlow, “because these women talked politics, volunteered in political campaigns and wore political buttons when they came to meetings.”
Democrats have their passionate local leaders, but they’ve lacked a Schlafly-style nationwide network of kitchen-table activists. And outside big cities, the party has allowed its local infrastructure to wither.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/29/opinion/sunday/how-the-left-learned-to-hate-like-the-right.html How the Left Learned to Hate Like the Right] by Michelle Goldberg, New York Times, April 29, 2017</ref>}}
==Early life==
==Early life==
Schlafly was born Phyllis McAlpin Stewart in St. Louis, Missouri, to Odile Dodge Stewart and John Bruce Stewart, in 1924. Her formative years were during the [[Great Depression]], along with her younger sister, while her father was unable to find work. In 1945, she graduated from Radcliffe College (which later merged into Harvard once it began admitting women) with a Master's Degree in Political Science.
Schlafly was born Phyllis McAlpin Stewart in St. Louis, Missouri, to Odile Dodge Stewart and John Bruce Stewart, in 1924. Her formative years were during the [[Great Depression]], along with her younger sister, while her father was unable to find work. In 1945, she graduated from Radcliffe College (which later merged into Harvard once it began admitting women) with a Master's Degree in Political Science.