Posted on 01/29/2020 4:10:27 PM PST by Morgana
Whether intentionally or not, feminist icon Gloria Steinem completely misunderstands what is at the heart of the pro-life movement.
In a new interview with Variety, the 85-year-old slammed pro-life activism as “patriarchy” and compared pro-lifers – at least half of all Americans – to Adolph Hitler and the Nazis.
To Steinem, a woman’s ability to abort her unborn baby is at the core of freedom and any opposition to abortion on demand is “patriarchy.” According to the interview, “… Steinem said Americans have yet to realize that controlling reproduction is the top priority of any oppressive government, and the very definition of the patriarchy.”
She argued that every totalitarian regime begins with controlling women’s reproduction.
“It isn’t the side issue, it’s the basic issue. In circular, egalitarian cultures, women can decide the fate of their own bodies. If we did not have wombs, we’d be fine,” Steinem said.
“The definition of patriarchy is controlling reproduction, made way worse by racism, because then you really have to control reproduction to keep races separate, or caste, in India. This is the first step, whether it’s Brazil or India or Hitler’s Germany,” Steinem said.
She claimed that Hitler’s first move as leader of Nazi Germany was to shut down all the family planning clinics and prohibit abortions.
“I don’t think we have yet understood that it is the first step in every authoritarian structure,” she said.
Steinem has made similar comments in the past. During a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in 2019, she claimed “there is no democracy” without the right to abort unborn babies.
“Our ability, men and women, to make decisions over our own bodies is the first step of democracy,” she told the crowd at the annual fundraiser in Stamford, Connecticut. “There is no democracy without that.”
Infamously, she once even claimed that if men could get pregnant, “abortion would be a sacrament.”
Steinem’s opinions stray drastically from her feminist fore-bearers. Early feminists leaders, including Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, strongly opposed abortion, describing it as “child murder” and the “ultimate exploitation of women.”
Today, the pro-life movement continues to be led by women, many of whom have had abortions themselves and now understand the truth. Killing an innocent human being can never be a means to achieving freedom, especially one’s own child. As the pro-life group New Wave Feminists once wrote: “When our liberation costs innocent lives, it’s merely oppression redistributed.”
The heart of the pro-life movement is protecting the right to life of every human being, born and unborn, without discrimination. Pro-life advocates — both men and women — work hard every day to ensure that every human life is treated with the dignity and respect that it deserves.
I looked for the SATIRE label but didn’t see it. I think she means it. Seriously.
I believe this woman is possessed. She is so close to eternity and she has absolutely no idea what horror awaits her.
What?
Judgement Day is gonna suck for this jerk.
Their bloodlust is insatiable.
It was Hitler that murdered over a million innocent babies, Gloria. Why have you chosen to further his evil work?
Gloria is projecting.
I think she is confusing abortion with the right to bear arms.
Is she still alive?
Twice I’ve had to say this today.
NO this is NOT the Babylon Bee. This is Life News reporting.
This is one sick twisted evil woman.
Indeed. Which is why this latest HeyLAM should be ignored, and let the smelly old bag die in irrelevance.
So, NOBODY has explained to miss crap-for-brains - that Hitler was all about EXTERMINATING undesired types of people?
Isn’t this what the abortion crowd is all about as well?
Well although the democraps stand for 90% of everything the NAZIS stood for, i in good conscience could never compare the dnc to them. They killed 5 times the amount of human being as Hitler ever did.
She’s pretty ignorant of actual history. One of the crimes against humanity alleged by the United States against the Nazi leadership was that they allowed abortion:
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1047&context=lusol_fac_pubs
“The prosecution argued that voluntary abortion was punishable because it was a crime against the unborn child. The prosecution proceeded on the theory that Germany had a duty to afford protection of law to unborn children and that the deliberate failure of high-level officials to do so constituted crimes against humanity and genocide by acts of omission. After summarizing evidence of voluntary abortion policies in its judgment, the Greifelt tribunal found two defendants guilty and one not guilty of forcible abortion and seven not guilty simply of abortion”
Says a Captain in the Army of Satan.
Cruella von Steinem is still alive? I thought she died of a clozapine overdose in some hospice in Brazil a few years ago. I must be thinking of some other broom pilot.
Michael Savage is right. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
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