Gloria Steinem ignores biggest reason for missing girls
During her speech at a Planned Parenthood of Central Oklahoma fundraiser on September 21, liberal feminist icon Gloria Steinem broached an uncomfortable topic for abortion proponents: the pandemic of missing girls.
In 2011, that number was estimated to be 160 million. In her book, Unnatural selection: Choosing boys over girls, and the consequences of a world full of men, pro-abortion author Mara Hvistendahl, a correspondent for Science magazine, blamed ultrasound technology and abortion for the gendercide. This is simply common sense.
I give Steinem points for raising the issue, particularly at a Planned Parenthood event, since it was only last year that a Live Action investigation exposed several PPs around the country as perfectly willing to commit sex-selective abortions.
But I must immediately take back most of those points, because Steinem was dishonest about the main cause of those missing girls, sex-selective abortions. From Steinem’s speech:
There is a son surplus and a daughter deficit because of female infanticide, and there is a huge market in sex trafficking, where the life expectancy is very, very short.
Now if the 160 million missing girls all died by infanticide, there would be piles of dead baby girls on every street corner in many Asian countries. Consider that this number is roughly the population of females in the United States. That’s a lot of girls. Steinem’s claim defies logic.
Gloria Steinem is a smart woman. I know she knows the truth. But liberal feminist abortion pushers can’t acknowledge that abortion is actually devastating to feminism, because to do so would be to shake the foundation of all they stand for.
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
She needs one more sentence on her t-shirt:
“I had an abortion…
And there’s almost a 50% chance it was my daughter I aborted, not my son.”
Yes, in some ethnic groups, parents deliberately abort girls, but ALL abortions deliberately abort girls approx. half the time.
These feminists are proud killers of women.
(With my sincerest apologies to those genuine pro-life feminists who appreciate that abortion hurts both women and children, perpetuating abuse and objectifying women in the worst ways.)
India actually made determining gender of your fetus illegal in some areas to combat this, and she still can’t admit that sex-selective abortion is probably the biggest contributor? And how can she think sex trafficking can make that big of a dent? Asia’s famous for little boy prostitutes as well as little girls, but there are still millions more men than women. She’s just blatantly ignoring abortion, there’s simply no logical explanation for the gender gap without it.
Let’s bemoan gender based infanticide, while advocating we kill the same girls a couple months earlier (or playing russian roulette with the sex issue a la all abortions as noted above).
Gloria please,
Put down your flabby arms and dispense with the t-shirt. You’re not a college girl anymore and you look ridiculous. Though not quite up there with the feminist has-beens in their vagina suits, you’re running a close second.
A self-avowed socialist. There you have it.
Does anyone even listen to this woman anymore? She aborted to have a career …too bad she couldn’t see that had she not she could have been working alongside a beautiful son or daughter!
Mara Hvistendahl’s book does note the role that ultrasound played in boosting gendercide in India. She does note to some degree the role of our western influence upon nation-level population goals in a variety of nations of those undesirable darkies, and to some degree notes that the pressure from outside imperialist influence is a more overbearing influence upon the drive toward gendercide: if the population must be controlled from the top-down as a matter of national policy, it was bound to break one way or the other.
This book also notes how demographers including the international population demography community, chose to discount and ignore this obvious, drastic phenomenon.
Mara Hvistendahl however spends a great deal of effort trying to sustain her pro-choice viewpoint.
While the book is illuminating for a few things, it depends a lot upon another book, on the topic, that should be placed higher on the reading list: Matthew Connelly’s “Fatal Misconception.” Hvistendahl depends a great deal upon Connelly.
Connelly illuminates imperialistic population control efforts, but as yet another member of the educated elite, he seems to have remained on the pro-choice side despite seeing how abortion has been promoted disingenuously.
Another book illuminating the West’s role in pressing for India and other nations of darkies to quit having so many darkie babies is Betsy Hartmann’s “Reproductive Rights and Wrongs.” Yet again, it takes a college scholar of the humanities to develop a book like this, and she does not stray from the political fold: despite seeing abortion used to control the population of darkies, Hartmann seems to remain pro-choice.
Gloria Steinem, Hilary Clinton, and other feminists have taken a stand: gendercide is wrong.
They are in the uncomfortable position of defending why it is wrong to abort because a “blob of flesh” is female, while hollering that everyone across the globe should have a right to an abortion on demand, indiscriminately (which means: no reason, such as desire for a male versus female offspring, needs to be provided), funded by the government, at any point during gestation.
Possibly, they can carry on like this because they are framing the issue as over there, in those nations of darkies.
Those darkies have immigrated, and have brought their values and customs to our western world. We now have documented unbalanced birth ratios, reflecting sex-selective abortion of females, in the Unites States, and also in Canada.
The pro-choice forces either do not yet know this, or do not want the secret to get out, since this really destroys the benign face of abortion they try to sustain.
That is quite a picture. to anyone who has experienced an abortion-your heart turns in your chest when you see her face-because it is a portrait of a woman in severe denial-and proud of it=wow.
I was reading that Glorias mom suffered from depression after becoming pregnant and losing her job. While Gloria was engaged she became pregnant and didn’t wish to go through the same grueling depession her mother did. However Gloria took care of her mom so it seems depression was a factor before her mom became pregnant. Anyway it says Gloria was sad and couldn’t talk about her abortion for 5 years.
However later Gloria said although she would try to make herself feel bad or guilty ..she never could. Oh well.
If that isn’t a face of anger and depression, I don’t know what would be.
Maybe she didn’t have one~ Or-big OR-the denial is THAT GREAT-it is a very, VERY common symptom of mental illness / an emotional disconnect caused by a severe resentment resulting in ptsd which is a lack of being able to sort through and ‘take inventory’ of basic assessments and needs which oftentimes results in: depression & of course-self medication which leads to: addiction of various kinds. The reason I say this is: STIENMAN’s rationing is SO FAR OFF- AKA- She is a learned scholar, she reads, she’s a famous intellectual-her statement reflects none of this reality. In fact her statement is a fantasy she is trying to perpetuate-that abortion, that feticide-NOT INFANTICIDE-is the MAJOR CAUSE of the woman shortage. Maybe she does not even know why she does this-but she’s made cult of this belief and as the head of this cult-she must feel that extra pressure or pride resulting in a hyper denial. I see you don’t know anyone with P.A.S.S.-perhaps you should try to show a little bit more compassion towards your girlfriends so that they can feel more comfortable sharing the most important things that they really, need to share-but shame, silence and denial-deny them their true feelings, and so do their ‘true’ friends. Perhaps you too, have had an abortion? I will pray for you, and I place the United Hearts of Jesus and Mary Holy Love Blessings over you with the divine seal of Christ’s blood. Amen. I would like to issue this sobering reminder to all those pro-abortion feminists–NO MATTER HOW ‘EQUAL’ YOU THINK YOURSELF TO MEN-NO MAN WILL EVER KNOW WHAT IT”S LIKE TO HAVE A VACCUME CLEANER INSIDE OF HIS BODY-SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF HIM-THIS IS WHAT YOUR MOVEMENT REALLY MEANS TO WOMEN.
How someone can smile while wearing that shirt is a bit sickening…
Abortion is just being irresponsible. Very few women actually have one for medical reasons or rape (which I personally believe is still not quite an excuse, though it is sad it happens). Having an abortion for reasons other than medical and in SOME instances rape says, “I was irresponsible and got pregnant instead of protecting myself. Because of that, I didn’t want to grow up and be a parent, so I decided to kill my baby instead.”
So, she did have sex with a man!
Hello Erinn,
I get what you are saying. Abortion kills the child and wounds the mother.
There are several post abortive women like myself who comment on this blog and I just want to remind you and others that there is forgiveness and healing in Christ after abortion!
http://rachelsvineyard.org/
Gloria Steinem is proud of her abortion. She is proud to stand and tell the world that she aborted and thinks that she is empowered for doing so. Which is a lie. She believes the lie that abortion solves a problem, heals or helps women. So did I at one point!
Pray for her. She can receive healing too!!
Some important stats to keep in mind. Nothing justifies abortion or excuses it but this might help EXPLAIN.
64% of American women felt pressured by others
Over 50% felt rushed or uncertain, yet 67% received no
counseling
79% were not told about available alternatives
84% said they were not fully informed
65% suffer symptoms of trauma
Coercion can escalate to violence, putting women & children at risk
Coerced abortion is an internationally recognized and illegal human
rights abuse
Homicide is the leading killer of pregnant women
After abortion, maternal death rates are 4 times higher
Post-abortion suicide rates are 6 times higher within the first year
http://www.unfairchoice.info/intro.htm
Hi Carla,
Excellent posts and insight. Thank you.
You are welcome dear Mary!!
Happy Friday to you!!
Steinem turned feminism on its head in the early 70’s since she rejected her contemporary Friedan and the early feminism of Susan B Anthony. I don’t understand how Steinem twisted feminism to come up with her version of “girl-power.”
Friedan asked in 2000: “Why don’t we join forces with all who have true reverence for life, including Catholics who oppose abortion, and fight for the choice to have children?” but Steinem disregarded this call and continues to push gender feminism (“reproductive rights”) to the extreme. Someone needs to write her a little missive on her personal website to counter her assertions in regard to missing girls. I am surprised she was even maried.
Steinem’s denial is a pretty common phenomenon. Nobody wants to recognize that her politics are causing the problem. She will never accept that feminism’s core precept of “reproductive rights” has caused this genocide against women.
We have the same problem with social welfare. Liberals constantly lament that the gap between rich and poor continues to grow. They blame capitalism, of course. But they fail to see that their progressive programs of welfare dependency cause welfare dependency, and the poor remain poor in a sustained cultural lifestyle.
We are not permitted to try any methods of loving charity for the poor, if it departs from the script of socialism and government programs. We are accused of “heartlessness” and “throwing the poor under the bus.”
Likewise, we are not permitted to try any methods of helping women other than giving them more “free” contraception and abortion, funded by taxpayers. If we so much as try to keep women safe from guys like Gosnell and Carhart, we are accused of “heartlessness” and “letting women die on the floor” and even “war on women.”
Hi Del,
Black conservatives have long maintained that social welfare and gov’t “anti-poverty” programs have devastated the black family in this country. Liberals will of course blame everything from slavery to racism for what could well be the result of their own failed policies.
The fact is Black Americans have a long tradition, pre and post slavery, of strong family and community ties, establishing their own institutions of learning and religion, establishing businesses and running farms, military and government service, contributions to the arts and sciences, and thriving middle and upper class neighborhoods. This despite every imaginable obstacle thrown at them.
Then the gov’t stepped in to “help”.
Gloria Steinem is a good(and I use the word loosely) example of what’s wrong with society as a result of feminism. What her shirt says is the same as a person wearing a shirt that says “I committed murder” with a smile on her face, and that disturbs me.
Steinem’s denial is a pretty common phenomenon. Nobody wants to recognize that her politics are causing the problem.
Who really pays her attention to her anymore? Most people under forty never heard of her. And why do prolifers always say that pro-abortion women are in denial? I have met plenty of women who have had abortions and don’t feel any sorrow, guilt, etc. at all. Steinem is a hard-core atheist, as was Freidan. I know that there are pro-life atheists, but most are pro-abortion.
Black conservatives have long maintained that social welfare and gov’t “anti-poverty” programs have devastated the black family in this country. Liberals will of course blame everything from slavery to racism for what could well be the result of their own failed policies.
Agreed, but try telling most black “leaders” that. They will go ballistic and call you a racist, bigot, accuse you of ”blaming the victim,” etc.
Right phylimiss..nice to see you. huh my former friend aborted in her 20s and to this day tells me she’s glad she aborted whenever the topic is brought up.
There is a definite time of denial phillymiss for some of us.
There was a girl across from me in her recliner in the recovery room. She rocked back and forth, holding her stomach and crying, “MY BABY, MY BABY, MY BABY!!!”
She knew. She was in a better place than I in her recovery. I sailed away into denial. Until denying what I had done almost cost me my life.
Cecile Richards is a good example too. Her heart is hard as she fights for the right for women to kill their own. Like she has done and refuses to accept. To acknowledge. To FEEL the regret, the sorrow, the sadness.
So she has to be prideful about it.
Grow up and be a parent, or allow someone else to become one by allowing them to adopt the child.