Juliet Stillman Severance, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American physician
Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1833
Date of Death: 03-Sep-1919
Profession: physician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Juliet Stillman Severance
- Juliet Hall Worth Stillman Severance (1 July 1833 in De Ruyter, Madison County, New York – 3 September 1919 in New York City) was an American physician and feminist of the 19th century.
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- Severance married twice and had three children.
- She is a relative to abolitionist and suffragist Lucretia Mott. She was one of the first woman physicians of the United States, having graduated in 1858 from Russell Trall’s Hygeio-Theraputic College in New York.
- Severance later moved to Whitewater, Wisconsin where she opened her medical practice.
- She opposed slavery, death penalty and abortion and supported the temperance movement.
- She was the leader of several Labour organizations.
- She participated in several anti-slavery, water-cure, dress reform, and dietary reform movements.
- In the biographical dictionary Women of the Century (1893), she is called "a radical of the radicals" and also "a model mother and a housekeeper". She campaigned for women rights and the right to life of the unborn child, believing that marriage and motherhood should be affirming choices for women.
- In her article, "Is the Present Marriage System a Failure?", published in the progressive Chicago newspaper Universe on 28 August 1869, she states: "Marriage should be a soul-union, not a curse ...
- not a merging of one life into another, but ...
- two individuals uniting their lives for mutual good and the good of humanity — it may be in reproduction, or it may be in giving birth to higher, nobler ideas, and outworking them in noble deeds and grand achievements ....
- There is not a child in a hundred that is begotten with the consent of the mother.
- As the present marriage system makes man the owner of woman — her legal master — she is expected to submit to his gratification ....
- When the marriage system is what it should be, and woman controls in these matters, instead of man ...
- Restellism [abortion] shall cease, because there will be no demand for it."
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