The Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Student Services Act would establish a pilot program to provide $10 million annually for 200 grants to encourage institutions of higher education to establish and operate a pregnant and parenting student services office. [1] The on-campus office would serve parenting students, prospective student parents who are pregnant or imminently anticipating an adoption, and students who are placing or have placed a child for adoption. It is named in honor of the prominent suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
The act was introduced by Senator Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) on November 8, 2005 as S. 1966. [2] [3] [4] It was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. It was co-sponsored by Senators Mike DeWine (R-OH) and Rick Santorum (R-PA). On the following day, the House version of the act was introduced by Congresswoman Melissa Hart (R-PA) as H.R. 4265 [5] [6] and was referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. On March 24, 2006 it was referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness. H.R. 4265 had 14 co-sponsors. 4 were Democrats and 10 were Republicans.
On February 15, 2007, in commemoration of the birthday of Susan B. Anthony, [7] the act was re-introduced by Representatives Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) and Sue Myrick (R-NC) as H.R. 1088. [8] [9] It had 12 co-sponsors. 4 were Democrats and 8 were Republicans. On March 19, 2007 it was re-introduced in the Senate by Elizabeth Dole as S. 915, [10] and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. It was co-sponsored by Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Robert Casey (D-PA). On Jun 5, 2007 H.R. 1088 was referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to be called for the sole purpose of discussing women's rights, and was the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments. Her demand for women's right to vote generated a controversy at the convention but quickly became a central tenet of the women's movement. She was also active in other social reform activities, especially abolitionism.
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Mary F. Eastman was an American educator, lecturer, writer, and suffragist. A native of Lowell, Massachusetts, she resided in Tewksbury for many years. She taught in the high and normal school for girls, Boston, then at request of Horace Mann, she went to Ohio to aid in the work of education which he had undertaken at Antioch College. She was among the first to be thought competent to teach and control the students of a winter school in Lowell. Her later teaching was in Charlestown, Massachusetts and Somerville, Massachusetts. Eastman thought that suffrage was the highway to all other reforms. She is remembered for her expertise in the lecture-field of women's rights. Eastman died in 1908.