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Gloria Steinem: Saving Babies From Abortion is “Patriarchy,” Pro-Life People are Like Hitler
Life News ^ | January 29, 2020 | Micaiah Bilger

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.


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KEYWORDS: abortion; gloriasteinem; prolife
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To: Morgana

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.


61 posted on 01/29/2020 7:10:54 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

When she dies she will meet Jesus. The ultimate patriarch.

And she will have NO say so as to her fate.


62 posted on 01/29/2020 7:15:56 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Morgana
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.

And yet this 85yo ghoul and her ilk proselytize the genocidal program that the Nazis embraced.

63 posted on 01/30/2020 3:04:19 AM PST by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. TJ)
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To: elcid1970

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.


64 posted on 01/30/2020 5:36:52 AM PST by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: Morgana

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.


65 posted on 01/30/2020 5:56:15 AM PST by Maris Crane
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To: Morgana

I didn't know the witch was still alive. To make one's life work the abortion of unborn children... well.

66 posted on 01/29/2022 11:46:51 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: tflabo
Abortion is the leftists holy sacrament.

Indeed it is. They are all followers of Moloch.

67 posted on 01/29/2022 11:51:02 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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