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 womans 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 womens reproduction.
It isnt the side issue, its the basic issue. In circular, egalitarian cultures, women can decide the fate of their own bodies. If we did not have wombs, wed 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 its Brazil or India or Hitlers Germany, Steinem said.
She claimed that Hitlers first move as leader of Nazi Germany was to shut down all the family planning clinics and prohibit abortions.
I dont 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.
Steinems 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 ones own child. As the pro-life group New Wave Feminists once wrote: When our liberation costs innocent lives, its 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.
The RATS sure do have an obsession with Nazis. Abortion was used by the Nazis as a means of terror and torture to women.
Funny they never mention that.
When she dies she will meet Jesus. The ultimate patriarch.
And she will have NO say so as to her fate.
And yet this 85yo ghoul and her ilk proselytize the genocidal program that the Nazis embraced.
I believe you’re right. I think she learned how to hide their true nature from Hitler by dressing it up in a catchy phrase.
These people never stop:
RATIONALIZING.
Nuns taught me that was a good word for normalizing bad behavior.
They can rationalize forever, the fact is they are killing a person.
I didn't know the witch was still alive. To make one's life work the abortion of unborn children... well.
Indeed it is. They are all followers of Moloch.
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