Posted on 09/03/2026 9:35:10 PM PDT 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.”
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.”
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.”
“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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
(At least she didn’t reiterate how the pope caused global warming by “forcing women to have children.”)
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.”
On abortion, Steinem concluded that “it's helpful to realize that we are not dealing with human nature here,” but with a “political system.”
And, you know, human lives, Ms. Steinem. Freedom based on the destruction of others’ liberty isn’t freedom at all.
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Jim
Yup. Slippery slope.
If you're referring to Lindsay Clancy, she murdered all three of her children.
But the case has received very little publicity, so it's understandable that you might have forgotten the details.
Regards,
Evil bitch. God only knows what’s next for her. Truly.
Keeping your horny ass legs together would’ve been helpful as well
These stories sound a lot like child sacrifice. They kill there unborn child in return for a better life. Once you spot the pattern, it’s hard to not see it.
Into the arms of Molech.
I don’t know what the problem is with people. Birth control is very simple. 1) Don’t have sex 2) Use the pill 3) Use a condom 4) or the old fashioned pull it out..... Not rocket science.....
Steinem praised abortion for giving her “my life”
What profiteth a harridan if she gain the world and lose her soul?
It’s not about a patriarchy or male domination. It’s about human nature as it has been as long as there have been humans.
So she sacrificed her first-born for material wealth and worldly power. That sounds strangely familiar, like an ancient story told again and again through the ages. Who did she make the sacrifice to? Ba’al? Molech? Satan Himself?
Her baby met her in Haven, before her baby aborted her from Haven so she can go to HELL!!
Equal and opposite reaction...Gave her life by taking life from another. Sad, sad science.
Can’t stand her either. She basically demonized the God given, extremely important role of women as nurturers and care givers and homemakers in society.
“feminist icon”??? I have not heard about her in decades!
What did your baby get?
Bzzt.
God gave you life.
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