Make a comparison between Elizabeth Cady Stanton's declaration and Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.

Jefferson and Stanton's declarations are very similar. Both declarations are written mostly about the equality and natural rights that man should already possess and should never have taken away. Stanton's declaration was mostly based off of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and was accepted by the Seneca Falls Convention in July of 1848. Jefferson's declaration was more focused on rights against the British and to keep them from continuing their unjust actions. However, Stanton's Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions is more focused on women's rights such as women have as equal rights as a citizen, what she wants to say, and any property or wage a woman earns she gets to keep. 

What risks did Elizabeth Cady Stanton take writing her declaration? Why did she take these risks?

In the eighteen hundreds writing something for women's rights was not something that was expected or for that matter accepted especially when written by a woman. Writing Stanton's declaration was a gamble whether it would be recognized as it should or if it would be ignored because it was such a radical idea that a woman should not be thinking much less writing. She risked social and public exile not that she would be executed but she would not be socially excepted. It turns out that her declaration is, in fact, recognized and accepted even though it was against the social expectancy.