WaPo profile of Jane Sullivan Roberts….Feminist For Life couldn’t buy this great PR!

In 1995 Jane Sullivan walked into the tiny downtown office of Feminists for Life, a group she’d heard about from a friend. Serrin Foster was staffing the front desk and explained to her what they were about: The group was a kind of updated antiabortion group that concentrated more on "prevention than rhetoric." It was started in the ’70s by some "hippie anti-nuke, anti-death penalty activists," including two women who had been kicked out of a National Organization for Women meeting for saying they were antiabortion.

Sullivan’s response was the same as that of many women who discover the group after searching for someplace that could contain all their various beliefs: "I’ve found my home," Foster recalls her saying.

By the most extreme stereotypes of the political landscape, being a committed, self-described feminist and being strongly antiabortion are irreconcilable opposites. But throughout her life, Sullivan, who became the wife of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts, has lived in that small slice of the Venn diagram where these two circles overlap.