 After becoming WCTU's president, Willard broadened the views of the group by including woman's rights reforms, abstinence, and education.As its president for 19 years, she focused on moral reform of prostitutes and prison reform as well as woman's suffrage.With the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, Willard's predictions that women voters "would come into government and purify it, into politics and cleanse the Stygian pool" could be tested.