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Gloria Steinem’s Belief That Female Success Requires Abortion Is Anti-Woman

Demanding abortion so women can ‘direct their lives’ is not empowering. It’s reductionist, insulting, and downright anti-woman.

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The world’s “most famous feminist” Gloria Steinem died at 92 years old on Wednesday, but the legacy the Ms. magazine co-founder leaves isn’t exactly the distinguished pro-woman one described by fawning corporate media outlets. Steinem’s legacy is both defined and ruled by the idea that abortion is what gives a woman her worth.

Steinem has always been and will continued to be honored by all the wrong people for all the wrong reasons. The Atlantic was among the worst this week when it dubbed Steinem’s work “feminism for all” despite the writer’s decades-long history of snubbing men (The Patriarchy™), marriage (“You become a semi-non person when you get married”), motherhood, household labor and any women who refused to fall into line with her shade of feminism.

Yes, the former undercover Playboy Bunny and CIA collaborator once lamented the “patriarchal, nuclear family” as an invention of “industrialization and capitalism” and purported solidarity for her sex unless it was politically inconvenient. Steinem also played an early role in feminists’ blurring sex differences by calling research on the subject “the remnant of anti-American crazy thinking” and repeatedly insisted “we badly need to raise our boys more like our girls.”

But the one essential issue that never left her list of passions was abortion. That is exactly why she was immediately celebrated as a “hero” and “crusader for abortion rights” who popularized euphemisms such as “reproductive freedom” to describe the violent dismemberment and chemical starvation of babies in the womb.

The tongue bath is unsurprising given Steinem co-founded and was on the board of Choice USA, now Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity (URGE), which “envisions a liberated world where we can live with justice, love freely, express our gender and sexuality, and define and create families of our........

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