Video Three decades and abortions later, a former feminist condemns the ideology that broke her After three abortions, 'Feminine, Not Feminist' author Candy Thompson says the ideology she embraced 'pitted' women against men. Now, she's reclaiming the memory of her lost children and urging women to question the beliefs she once held.
Octogenarian Candy Thompson, who says she left her Christian faith after embracing feminism and later had three abortions during her first marriage, eventually returned to Christianity and said feminism "failed" her.
"The feminists pitted [women] against men, they pitted us against having children … It belittled who we were in the home and [as] mothers, and it belittled who we were as just women in a marriage," Thompson told Fox News Digital.
"When it pitted us against God even … then that's what really led to what happened to me," she continued.
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Candy Thompson and her second husband on their wedding day, left, and today after decades of marriage, right. (Candy Thompson)
Thompson, who attended the University of North Carolina in the 1960s, said learning about feminism while in college helped lead her away from her Christian values.
"[Those values] didn't seem to answer the questions that I was asking. And then I heard about feminism, and that was in the culture … It sounded good because it was about equality," she added.
"I had a really, really traumatic experience between my junior and senior year. I had a miscarriage in the college dorm … Instead of going to my parents, instead of going back to God … I just went right on with what I had been doing. I look back at that and see that was when my life began to go really downhill from there," Thompson continued.
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Candy Thompson said she had three abortions and experienced a miscarriage. Decades later, the octogenarian is recognizing the lives of the children she lost with acknowledgment-of-life certificates. (Candy Thompson)
After a miscarriage, Thompson said she married the first man she dated. The marriage ended in divorce, and Thompson said she had three abortions during the relationship. She now recognizes those pregnancies with acknowledgment-of-life certificates.
"There were lots of effects like anger. I did not understand as a young woman what my actual created purpose was … Those things were not really clear until I returned to my former faith," she said.
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Candy Thompson said feminism pitted women against men, children and God, and linked her embrace of feminism to decisions she made before returning to her Christian faith. (Candy Thompson)
"We have young people from the colleges into our homes and they're hungry. They are hungry to know who they really are and they want to be married," Thompson continued. "They want to have this love, but they don't trust men … and having their hearts broken and hurt because we're made in that way of wanting to have that relationship that is a lifetime relationship."
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"They're wanting this in their spirits, but they don't know how to get it because nobody's telling them. These women are lost," she added.
Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi is an Associate Producer at Fox News Digital.
