{"id":2654482,"date":"2026-09-04T08:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigngloria-steinems-belief-that-female-success-requires-abortion-is-anti-woman\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:04:32","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigngloria-steinems-belief-that-female-success-requires-abortion-is-anti-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigngloria-steinems-belief-that-female-success-requires-abortion-is-anti-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloria Steinem\u2019s Belief That Female Success Requires Abortion Is Sad And Anti-Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigngloria-steinems-belief-that-female-success-requires-abortion-is-anti-woman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2654482&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the death of Gloria Steinem at age 92, highlighting her complex legacy. While celebrated as a feminist icon,her views and actions are critiqued for being controversial,especially her unwavering support for abortion rights.Steinem&#8217;s advocacy for reproductive freedom is portrayed as emblematic of her commitment to abortion, which she viewed as a core aspect of women&#8217;s worth and empowerment.The piece critiques her stance on feminism, traditional gender roles, and her personal history, including her early abortion and involvement wiht controversial organizations. It portrays her as a figure whose promotion of abortion frequently enough overshadowed other aspects of women&#8217;s well-being and true empowerment, emphasizing her belief that abortion was integral to women&#8217;s liberation. The author suggests that Steinem\u2019s focus on abortion as a form of empowerment disregards the physical, emotional, and psychological toll it can have on women, and views her legacy as entangled with efforts to undermine traditional family and reproductive roles.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The world\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegenews.com\/gloria-steinem-dies-at-92\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cmost famous feminist\u201d<\/a> Gloria Steinem died at 92 years old on Wednesday, but the legacy the Ms. magazine co-founder leaves isn\u2019t exactly the distinguished pro-woman one described by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-czar-kamala-harris-heads-to-secure-ukraines-border-but-wont-protect-her-own-countrys\/\" title=\"Border Czar Kamala Harris Heads To Secure Ukraine\u2019s Border But Won\u2019t Protect Her Own Country\u2019s\">fawning corporate media outlets<\/a>. Steinem\u2019s legacy is both defined and ruled by the idea that abortion is what gives a woman her worth. <\/p>\n<p>Steinem has always been and will continued to be honored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2013\/12\/01\/gloria_steinem_represents_the_worst_of_modern_feminism_120818.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all the wrong people<\/a> for all the wrong reasons. The Atlantic was among the worst this week when it dubbed Steinem\u2019s work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/2026\/09\/gloria-steinem-obit\/688506\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cfeminism for all\u201d<\/a> despite the writer\u2019s decades-long history of snubbing men (The Patriarchy\u2122), <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/2020\/story?id=124030&#038;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">marriage<\/a> (\u201cYou become a semi-non person when you get married\u201d), <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/01\/26\/mary-tyler-moore-rejected-the-feminism-of-gloria-steinem-and-betty-friedan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">motherhood<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/100076-no-man-can-call-himself-liberal-or-radical-or-even\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">household labor<\/a> and any women who refused to fall into line with her shade of feminism.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the former undercover <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/FuXrP#selection-463.0-463.15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Playboy Bunny<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/readingroom\/docs\/CIA-RDP88-01315R000300380009-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CIA collaborator<\/a> once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feminist.com\/resources\/artspeech\/family\/ffvfsteinem.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lamented<\/a> the \u201cpatriarchal, nuclear family\u201d as an invention of \u201cindustrialization and capitalism\u201d and purported solidarity for her sex unless it was <a href=\"https:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/timesmachine\/1998\/03\/22\/issue.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">politically inconvenient<\/a>. Steinem also played an early role in feminists\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/kued\/nosafeplace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blurring sex differences<\/a> by calling research on the subject <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com\/news-flash-men-and-women-are-different\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cthe remnant of anti-American crazy thinking\u201d<\/a> and repeatedly insisted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2026\/sep\/03\/gloria-steinem-best-quotes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cwe badly need to raise our boys more like our girls.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the one essential issue that never left her list of passions was abortion. That is exactly why she was immediately celebrated as a <a href=\"https:\/\/now.org\/media-center\/press-release\/our-hero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201chero\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/a5bi8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201ccrusader for abortion rights\u201d<\/a> who popularized euphemisms such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2026\/sep\/03\/gloria-steinem-groundbreaking-feminist-campaigner-dies-aged-92\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201creproductive freedom\u201d<\/a> to describe the violent dismemberment and chemical starvation of babies in the womb.<\/p>\n<p>The tongue bath is unsurprising given Steinem co-founded and was on the board of Choice USA, now Unite for Reproductive &#038; Gender Equity (URGE), <a href=\"https:\/\/urge.org\/about\/mission-and-values\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">which<\/a> \u201cenvisions a liberated world where we can live with justice, love freely, express our gender and sexuality, and define and create families of our choosing.\u201d She also dedicated much of her life to lobbying and <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/gloria-steinem-helps-planned-parenthood-south-texas-raise-1-million\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">raising millions of dollars for abortion<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took us a while to figure out but patriarchy \u2013 or whatever you want to call it, the systems that say there\u2019s masculine and feminine and other bullsh-t \u2013 is about controlling reproduction. Every economics course ought to start not with production but with reproduction. It is way more important,\u201d Steinem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/oct\/17\/gloria-steinem-activist-interview-memoir-my-life-on-the-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">remarked<\/a> more than a decade before her death. <\/p>\n<p>If Steinem made one thing clear over her 92 years, it\u2019s that she loved abortion, even when it called into question her championing of women as men\u2019s equals. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen are always saying, \u2018We can do anything that men can do,\u2019 but men should be saying, \u2018We can do anything that women can do.\u2019\u201d Steinem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/life\/quotes\/gloria-steinem-quotes-rcna595865\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">remarked<\/a> at the 1977 National Women\u2019s Conference. <\/p>\n<p>Women can do anything and more, Steinem and co. proclaim! Anything, that is, unless they get pregnant. According to the ideology of abortion zealots like Steinem, women <em>can\u2019t<\/em> do it all if carrying a baby to term is required. They believe pregnancy and raising children is an obstacle to happiness and success. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament,\u201d Steinem once remarked.<\/p>\n<p>Men can\u2019t get pregnant. Yet, women like Steinem have still worked hard to turn abortion into a sacrament. In one interview, Steinhem went so far as to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/05\/16\/feminist-icon-gloria-steinem-abortions-stop-global-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claim<\/a> more abortions would have prevented what she dubbed the world\u2019s current \u201cclimate problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ending life in the womb, she and her cohort proclaim, is not only necessary but it\u2019s also empowering. Killing the unborn is a pillar in their propaganda that preaches prioritizing reckless sex, shattering glass ceilings, and girl-bossing over marriage, family, and fertility, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/01\/study-having-a-husband-and-kids-doubles-womens-likelihood-of-being-happy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the indisputable benefits of the latter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steinem personally hailed her illegal abortion at 22 years old as \u201cthe first time I had taken responsibility for my own life\u201d and even dedicated her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/qNMIkgir7QI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2015 book <em>My Life on the Road<\/em> to her London abortionist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t going to let things happen to me. I was going to direct my life, and therefore it felt positive,\u201d Steinem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2011\/nov\/13\/gloria-steinem-interview-feminism-abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recalled in 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Horrific framing from CNN today:<\/p>\n<p>Steinem murdered her baby at 22 via abortion. She spent her whole life trashing marriage and kids. <\/p>\n<p>Dolly wanted children but could not have them. She spent her life being \u201ceverybody&#8217;s mother.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>They are NOT the same.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x7zDXdu73d\">https:\/\/t.co\/x7zDXdu73d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Jordan Boyd (@jordanboydtx) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jordanboydtx\/status\/2095583853708493276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Just like that, Steinem\u2019s life was completely characterized by her decision to defy motherhood using abortion. <\/p>\n<p>Steinem famously blamed society for encouraging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/kued\/nosafeplace\/interv\/steinem.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cwomen to be victims in every way.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There\u2019s opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine,\u201d Steinem suggested. <\/p>\n<p>What she failed to mention is the feminism she sold to women preached no differently. <\/p>\n<p>Not only is killing your unborn baby is the opposite of taking responsibility for your choices, but it\u2019s far from the euphoric and liberating act Steinem and so many other leftist women pretend it is. Abortion is proven to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/05\/06\/abortion-drug-makers-admit-they-care-about-money-not-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">physically<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/18\/therapist-yes-post-abortive-women-suffer-from-trauma-and-complicated-grief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">emotionally<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/22\/study-abortion-doubles-womens-risk-of-psychiatric-hospitalization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mentally<\/a> wreck women. In fact, the only parties abortion seems to readily empower are <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/20\/want-to-know-who-is-really-empowered-by-abortion-sex-traffickers-and-abusers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sex traffickers and abusers, oftentimes men<\/a>, whose exploitation of victims hinges on an industry that is willing to murder babies and hurt women with little to no questions asked.<\/p>\n<p>  If Steinem made anything clear over the last 50 years of her career, it\u2019s that she <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/09\/feminists-unequivocal-support-for-graham-platner-proves-they-love-abortion-more-than-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">loved abortion more she loved women<\/a>. Because to love and support women is to understand and value their unique role in procreation, not treat that ability as an inconvenience that must be sidelined in favor of seemingly larger, more important plans. <\/p>\n<p>Demanding that women should be able to kill their own children to pursue their careers or live their lives well is not empowering. It\u2019s reductionist, insulting, and downright anti-woman. Most of all, it\u2019s sad. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gloria Steinem is dead. She is survived by no one, because she aborted her only known child to hang out in India with Gandhi allies. This tragedy could have been a personal one had she not spent her life leading a generation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-blm-co-founder-declares-charitable-financial-disclosures-triggering\/\" title=\"Nolte: BLM Co...Founder Declares Charitable Financial Disclosures &#039; Triggering&#039;\">college-educated white women<\/a> down her path to ruin.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher Bedford (@CBedfordDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CBedfordDC\/status\/2095525857510998092?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is an award-winning staff writer at The Federalist and producer of \u201cThe Federalist Radio Hour.\u201d Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloria Steinem\u2019s legacy centers on abortion as woman\u2019s worth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2654483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-03-at-1.36.58-PM-scaled-e1788462127651.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[14678,85067,36292],"class_list":["post-2654482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-feminism","tag-gloria-steinem","tag-reproductive-rights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-03-at-1.36.58-PM-scaled-e1788462127651.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654486,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654482\/revisions\/2654486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2654483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}