Posted on 11/20/2013 5:41:03 PM PST by markomalley
Gloria Steinem, the feminist icon of the 60's and 70's who founded Ms. Magazine and serves as one of the loudest cheerleaders for abortion in America, received the Medal of Freedom today from President Barack Obama. Ruth Tam, columnist for the Washington Post, had the privilege of interviewing Gloria. Here are some brief highlights:
Tam:
You spent your early career fighting for abortion rights. It’s still a hot-button issue. How has the fight over abortion changed in your lifetime and what’s the next battleground?
Steinem:
It shouldn’t be an issue. Approximately one in three women in this country needs an abortion at some time in her life. It should be a part of reproductive rights. We want to diminish the number. Nobody wants to get up in the morning and think, “I want to have a surgical procedure.” But the problem is that there’s a fervent and well-financed minority that believes that all sexuality that can’t end in conception is wrong and immoral.
The anti-reproductive freedom forces have, in their view, lost at a federal level and the ones in control are enacting punitive legislation to shut down clinics. The next big step is to pay more attention to state legislators, where they are not representing the majority opinion and remedying the situation where Americans don’t know who their state senators are. We probably are focusing more on Washington than our state senators and we need to remedy that.
Tam:
A lot of women would list you as their feminist icon/personal hero. Who is your feminist icon, your personal hero?
Steinem:
I don’t think there is such a thing as a feminist icon. I guess it just means that you’re recognizable, which for me was just an accident. If I was a physicist or astronaut or mechanic, I would be just as much a feminist.
Tam:
What does the Presidential Medal of Freedom mean to you?
Steinem:
The medal itself is a sign of progress because it is the first major national medal that isn’t related to the military. I can think of no president in history from whose hand I would be more honored to receive this medal from. Not only the change he represents but because he stands for and has stood with Planned Parenthood and reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right. But this medal belongs to all of us. It’s so clearly a medal for the movement. It has huge, huge meaning.
The Medal of Freedom was originally meant to award "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors."
We can all now include Gloria Steinem under that honorable umbrella.
miserable ghoul.
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Okra got one. So did Dick Luger.
Giving em away like candy.
When everyone gets a trophy it is not an award.
Wow. I guess the Medal of Freedom isn’t as prestigious as it once was. I feel badly for those who received this for doing really important things. No lofty requirements anymore.
all sexuality must end in conception is wrong or immoral??
Were talkin about baby murder, dope, forget about sexuality, it’s about responsibilty
So much for the "Obama Medal of Freedom" award.
This thing was like a liberal freak show today. Feminazis, racist billionaires, “first black presidents” and a complete assortment of liberal freaks. So much for the respect of the “Medal of Freedom”. Once again, the communists throw America, our culture, our traditions and our heroes in our face. Thanks you Kenyan bass turd.
Yikes. How much does she charge to haunt a house?
steinham, Clinton, oprah winfrey...........he’s just trying to stick it to us.
Ew, look at those saggy arms ...gag me!!
FUBO
Liberals have rendered most traditional awards insignificant. Nobel Peace Prize, Pulitizer, Presidential Medals of 'whatever' - all are nothing more than popularity contests with less prestige than 8th grade class vice president.
Real advocates of freedom......except for those souls trapped in a liberal woman’s uterus, the most dangerous place on earth. Gloria, I am glad you saved your child from the pain of being raised by an evil, selfish b$tch such as yourself.
And if you saw Lisa Myers interview with Juanita Broadrick in the 90’s, you would believe he is also a rapist.
I did and I do!
“The Presidential Medal of Infanticide”
People like Steinem are pathetic. She’s a sixties fossil trying desperately to still be relevant.
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