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AUSTIN, TX, May 5, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Texas Democratic Party fundraiser is being criticized for appearing to compare Wendy Davis, Hilary Clinton, and Planned Paernthood founder Margaret Sanger to Susan B. Anthony.

The Hill Country chapter of Texas Democratic Women held a fundraiser on April 30 entitled “From High-Tops to Tennies,” which featured its members dressed as “historical women role models.” The women on the list include acknowledged historical figures such as Anthony, Abigail Adams, and Rosa Parks, as well as Wendy Davis, Hilary Clinton, Sanger, and former pro-abortion Texas Governor Ann Richards, the mother of current Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards.

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Pro-life leaders are questioning the inclusion of staunch abortion supporters on the list with the women's suffrage activist, among other reasons, because historical evidence seems to indicate Susan B. Anthony was pro-life. In fact, one of the country's leading pro-life organizations, the Susan B. Anthony List, was named after the famous early feminist.

In an 1875 speech on “Social Purity,” Susan B. Anthony listed “abortions and infanticides” alongside such evils as “divorce, adultery, bigamy, seduction, rape…wife murders and paramour shooting” as “perpetual reminders of men’s incapacity to cope successfully with this monster evil of society.”

An unsigned editorial in the newspaper Anthony produced along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Revolution, condemned abortion in itself. “No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death.” But the paper laid even more guilt upon the man who pressured the woman into the abortion. “But oh! thrice guilty is he who, for selfish gratification, heedless of her prayers, indifferent to her fate, drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.”

The editorial was signed only by “A.” According to Mary Krane Derr, the author of Pro-Life Feminism: Yesterday and Today, Susan B. Anthony was sometimes called “Miss A.”

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Conservative activists also questioned what accomplishments figures like Wendy Davis and Hilary Clinton could claim that were comparable to those of Susan B. Anthony.

“How is Davis influential?” Asche Schow asked in The Washington Examiner. “She wore pink 'tennies' to filibuster” the Texas' 20-week abortion ban, which “ended up passing. She's not a historical candidate for Texas, nor would her winning make history – Miriam A. Ferguson was the first female governor of Texas in 1925. So it's hard to see what lands her on a list with Anthony and Parks,” she said.

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Meanwhile, attendees at the Democratic National Convention's most recent winter meeting could not name a single thing Hilary Clinton had accomplished when asked by CNSNews.com.

The national party leadership seems to have written off the hopes that Davis, who did not attend the event, will win the governor's race this fall against Attorney General Greg Abbott. Last week Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, named the races he considers likely or possible Democratic wins. Texas was not among them. “We’ll be candid about the fact that we all understand Democrats haven’t won Texas in a long time,” Shumlin said.

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Hillary Clinton may be in a better position to make electoral history. A Quinnipiac Poll released last Thursday shows Hillary leading Jeb Bush by eight percentage points in his home state of Florida. Jeb, a former governor of the Sunshine State, is a favorite of the GOP establishment on the grounds of electability.

The Susan B. Anthony List did not respond to LifeSiteNews.com's request for comment by press time.