Posted on 11/04/2015 9:01:11 PM PST by Morgana
Gloria Steinem doesn’t have her facts straight, but don’t expect the media to call her out on it.
On Tuesday, feminist activist Gloria Steinem appeared as a guest on PBS’ Tavis Smiley. During the show, Steinem praised abortion for giving her “my life†and bashed the controversy surrounding Planned Parenthood’s practice of aborted baby parts. She blamed the “attack†on Planned Parenthood on everything from the “ultra-right wing†to “patriarchy†and a “long-term racist system.â€
Host Tavis Smiley hailed Steinem as a “feminist icon†and “renowned social activist†before asking about her newly published book, My Life on the Road.
From the beginning of the interview, Steinem recalled her own abortion as a young woman. Her life depended on the death of her unborn baby, she said – albeit phrased a bit differently.
“It gave me my life,†she insisted of the abortion. “I mean, I wouldn’t have been able to live my life otherwise.â€
Her story prompted Smiley to ask about the Planned Parenthood controversy following the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress. “What you make all these years later then, of what many regard as an attack on Planned Parenthood?†he wanted to know.
Steinem began by praising Planned Parenthood as “the single-most-popular supported organization†in the United States because “it has helped so, so, so many people.â€
“Something like one in five,†she added (according to Planned Parenthood’s own numbers, that’s actually one in five women).
Besides, Steinem continued, with Planned Parenthood, “only about 1% of what they do has anything to do with abortion.â€
That stat was wrong too, according to Planned Parenthood’s numbers. Planned Parenthood lists abortion as 3% of total services. According to a Washington Post fact-checker, that number is misleadingly low.
Steinem’s claims only got worse, as she “explained†what inspired the recent “attack†on Planned Parenthood after videos revealed its practice with aborted baby parts.
“[The attack] is part of an ultra right-wing attempt to restore the basis of patriarchy or a male-dominant system and the necessity of a long-term racist system which is controlling reproduction,†she began. “And to control reproduction, you have to control the bodies of women.â€
Because the criticism of Planned Parenthood could never be about what the pro-life movement says it is: saving unborn lives from death and ghoulish desecration.
What’s more, she demanded, women have every right to take over the world from men through reproduction. Steinem continued:
“So there is a huge backlash against what is a majority opinion in this country that this is an individual human right. It’s part of bodily integrity. The government shouldn’t intervene. Politicians don’t make this decision. But there are people on the other side who firmly believe the contrary and that this is – and it is, in fact – the beginning of the hierarchy they believe in.â€
Smiley chimed in again to ask Steinem about the “debates about reproductive freedom and about women’s rights†led in “our body politic by men to begin with.â€
(At least she didn’t reiterate how the pope caused global warming by “forcing women to have children.â€)
Steinem again pointed to “authority†and “control†tied-in with democracy and nationalism.
“So the question is, who controls a woman’s body? Herself, which seems to me a requisite of it’s a basic human right. It’s a requisite of democracy. But without controlling reproduction, you lose control of nationalism, which has two pillars, which is territory and population. You lose the ability to decide how many workers, how many soldiers, what class, what race and so on.â€
On abortion, Steinem concluded that “it’s helpful to realize that we are not dealing with human nature here,†but with a “political system.â€
And, you know, human lives, Ms. Steinem. Freedom based on the destruction of others’ liberty isn’t freedom at all.
everything circles around our personal morality....everything...
Too bad she’s not alive to say the same thing about you.
As a Florida freeper said to me one time, “We’ve raised a generation of barnyard animals.”
She could have had her baby, given it up for adoption, and ‘lived her life’.....
...but no....she didn’t want to be inconvenienced by carrying a baby to term
And the difference between this and Baal or Moloch worship is what???
They sacrificed their children so their lives would be better.
How are the grandchildren Gloria?
Pray America wakes
Gloria was on Tavis Smiley recently & flapped her piehole
incessantly as if she thought she were dispensing the
“Wisdom of the Ages”.
“What exactly has Miss Steinem done with her life that was so great she had to kill her baby for it?”
She got to do things her own way without the burden of being a mother to the child she murdered. It’s all about her. She believes she could never have been famous had she not murdered her child.
Those who want an abortion are only completely selfish.
Witchery!
You’d think this broad might have developed at least some remorse, old as she is...but no.
This is the BIG LIE that we should never let them get away with. If you don’t want to keep and raise a child there is no law that forces you to do so. None.
You could have gone on with your life just fine.
The other problem with this meme is that there is no way a woman who is a parent can succeed at anything in life ... yet men who are parents can succeed at anything. So they are admitting and acceding that men are superior right out of the box.
If they were worried about discrimination against woman as parents (vs men as parents) they could have fought that battle ... but they chose not to.
I’ve been seeing it in some emails now...unrelated to FR...maybe Chinese are testing?
Except there is NO LAW requiring you to keep and raise a child (or have a pet). None whatsoever in any state.
And the dead kid had no say in the matter.
I’d wondered that too. Most women do have remorse. Sometimes right after, sometimes years later. This chick, still does not have remorse, or will not admit it.
She’s given herself over to the devil.
Hey, come on, it is a woman’s choice.
I mean, it ain’t like she drowned her toddler in the bathtub or anything.
Wait ...
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