Who was the real Phyllis Schlafly?

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Love her or hate her, you probably don’t know as much about Phyllis Schlafly as you think.

She’s known among liberals as an “anti-feminist feminist,” the religious conservative who helped stop the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and criticized the second-wave feminism of the 1960s. To conservatives, Schlafly was the activist who led the charge against social liberalism and abortion on demand.

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