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Gloria Steinem: Abortion restrictions are ‘the fundamental cause of climate change’
life site news ^ | May 17, 2017 | Fr. Mark Hodges

Posted on 09/04/2026 12:05:06 PM PDT by Morgana

— A self-avowed “radical feminist” is blaming so-called ‘man-made’ climate change on too few women aborting their children.

In an interview with Refinery29, 1960’s feminist icon Gloria Steinem began with the debunked population explosion myth.

“What causes climate deprivation is population,” she said, echoing the current liberal spin.

She then tied her pet issue, unrestricted government-funded abortion and its global coercion, with the standard “Florida-is-sinking-into-the-ocean” fearmongering:

“If we had not been systematically forcing women to have children they don’t want or can’t care for over the 500 years of patriarchy, we wouldn’t have the climate problems that we have. That’s the fundamental cause of climate change,” she said.

Steinem, who popularized the “I got an abortion” t-shirt, then said that the world’s main salvation from polar ice-cap melt is more abortions.

“The human load on this earth is the biggest cause of global warming, and that is because of forcing women to have children they would not on their own choose to have,” she said.

The Daily Caller noted the irony in climate change activists like Steinem, who want to save the planet for future generations…by aborting the future generation: “We have to kill the children, or else we won’t have any sort of planet to leave to the… children. Wait.”

Refinery29 did not challenge the logic of Steinem’s claims that “climate deprivation” threatens the world, that its cause is “population,” that there are too many children in the world, that women historically have been “systematically forced” to bear children they don’t want, that patriarchy is 500 years old, or that universal abortion-on-demand would eliminate climate change.

Steinem made the same batty assertions last year as the keynote speaker at a Planned Parenthood fundraiser. “Forced childbirth is the single biggest cause of global warming,” she said.

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Not surprisingly, she also blames the Pope and “patriarchal religions” for “the earth’s temperature…ticking upwards.”

“We should have this massive education campaign pointing out that the Pope and all of the other patriarchal religions that dictate to women in this way, accusing them of global warming,” Steinem said. “Does (the Pope) know he’s causing it?”

The 83-year-old former Playboy bunny, whose mother went partially insane before she was born, doesn’t have any children of her own. She waited until she was in her sixties before marrying. (Her husband died just three years after they were married.)

Steinem characterizes her own abortion at age 22 as “positive” and guilt-free, even though “I used to sit and try and figure out how old the child would be.”


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Weather
KEYWORDS: abortion; climatechange; gloriasteinem; populationcontrol; prolife; saferareandlega

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To: Morgana

IOW, people getting born is the problem. Welp, after 92 years, not counting the abortion she had, she now has the opportunity to permanently remove her own carbon footprint. Thank you, Gloria Steinem.


21 posted on 09/04/2026 1:17:41 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: Morgana

Disgusting and Evil. I’m glad the earth is rid of her hateful presence.


22 posted on 09/04/2026 1:22:07 PM PDT by little jeremiah (The only way is the military)
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To: Morgana
Steinem characterizes her own abortion at age 22 as “positive” and guilt-free, even though “I used to sit and try and figure out how old the child would be.”

That's called regret/guilt

23 posted on 09/04/2026 1:30:23 PM PDT by tlozo (“Russia war-Either money today or blood tomorrow," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk)
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To: Morgana

So I wonder if Gloria is:
RIP
Being fitted with a harp, wing and halo ... or
Being fitted with an asbestos suit


24 posted on 09/04/2026 1:34:37 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Beowulf9

Very.


25 posted on 09/04/2026 1:40:52 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: sgt_lau

Same here.


26 posted on 09/04/2026 1:41:06 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: antidemoncrat

I’d say the later.


27 posted on 09/04/2026 1:41:44 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Puppage

We need to go full Pinochet before it’s too late.


28 posted on 09/04/2026 1:42:10 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Morgana

She was an evil witch and clown.


29 posted on 09/04/2026 1:42:22 PM PDT by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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To: Morgana

There is the possibility that Gloria Steinem repented and accepted the saving grace of Jesus in her last months on Earth. Barring that, her eternal future will not be pleasant.


30 posted on 09/04/2026 1:45:21 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: reasonisfaith

Too bad I nd others did not know this until yesterday. It all makes sense now.


31 posted on 09/04/2026 1:54:55 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact.)
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To: Morgana
A self-avowed “radical feminist” is blaming so-called ‘man-made’ climate change on too few women aborting their children.

They really want to depopulate the earth to levels of below 1 billion or less. We are talking 80%.

32 posted on 09/04/2026 2:00:46 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: Morgana

Ridiculous, especially since “climate change”, other than normally variations in weather, has been debunked.


33 posted on 09/04/2026 2:18:21 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Morgana

Loony Toon murdering jackel................


34 posted on 09/04/2026 2:45:08 PM PDT by BFW
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To: sgt_lau

“American feminist Gloria Steinem, who died Wednesday at the age of 92,is reported to be in shock and under heavy sedation at a hospital in Heaven, after seeing the afterlife is populated largely by fish, who spend their days blowing bubbles, eating worms, and riding bicycles.”

I thought of this one decades ago, but the old witch hung on decade after decade.

I guess Ol’Scratch himself put off her homecoming as long as possible-even he didn’t want her around...


35 posted on 09/04/2026 2:55:39 PM PDT by mucrospirifer
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To: vivenne

I agree with you that it’s too bad our country didn’t know this in the 1960s and 70s. Nobody would have fallen for it.

And to make things worse, most mainstream media personalities, starting with Walter Cronkite, were CIA operatives.


36 posted on 09/04/2026 3:14:56 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Morgana

She is dumb, dumb and dumber rolled in a moronic shell. They call it the dung burrito.


37 posted on 09/04/2026 3:25:40 PM PDT by Mlheureux
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To: Morgana

“Steinem, who popularized the “I got an abortion” t-shirt, then said that the world’s main salvation from polar ice-cap melt is more abortions.” Murdering more babies because the polar ice-cap might melt for a few years?


38 posted on 09/04/2026 5:17:44 PM PDT by kawhill (Dywedwch + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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To: reasonisfaith

I knew Cronkite was a Communist. Apparently, it was no secret where he you used to sail in Newport RI. Didn’t know he was CIA but now that the pieces of the puzzle are coming together about our country, it doesn’t suprise me. I think current problems in our country and what has happened to Trump point to the handiwork of John Brennan.


39 posted on 09/04/2026 6:27:15 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact.)
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To: boycott

According to the blonde ditz who first started at MSNBC and then went to Fox, Marie Harf climate change was the reason for terrorism.

So according to her Refat and the boys are so upset with ‘’climate change’’ they’re turning themselves into pink mists anywhere and every where.


40 posted on 09/04/2026 7:29:24 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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