One Small Step for Womankind

Feminist icon, Gloria Steinem died on Wednesday at the age of 92. As we look over the cultural landscape in America today, her influence is glaring and ubiquitous. Steinem was one of the biggest advocates for abortion rights in this country which she labelled as “reproductive freedom”. She once proudly stated that aborting my baby “gave me my life”. Other women have made similar statements about their abortions. Rocker Stevie Nicks admitted that her band Fleetwood Mac would have been “destroyed” and all of their great music never would have been produced if she did not have her abortion in 1977. Ann Hathaway when discussing the overturning of Roe v Wade on The View stated that “this is not a moral conversation about abortion, but a practical conversation about women’s rights.” So, killing a baby is not a moral question, but a practical question. That’s the way they want to frame it because they know it is practical, but immoral. Hathaway went onto say that "my own personal experience with abortion… abortion can be another word for mercy," intimating that having an abortion has allowed her to pursue her successful acting career.

I have never understood the modern woman’s desire for abortion and their hatred for having children. A woman’s ability to create life is really the one and only superpower that human beings have. What amazes me more than that power of women to give life is the modern woman’s disdain for that power and how frivolous they are with that power. Sex has mutated from a gift from God as part of the woman’s ability to create life into a game. That is the crux of the entire abortion debate – sex. Abortion is not about reproductive freedom; it is about sexual freedom – the ability to have sex freely without consequences. Women have reproductive freedom without abortion simply by choosing not to have sex.

When speaking of abortion, Steinem once said, “If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.” It is interesting because she also said, that “we badly need to raise our boys more like our girls,” which is interesting because woman are the ones who have turned abortion into a sacrament. Earlier this year at her New York apartment, Steinem met with a group of young women discussing women’s issues, one woman asked “we hear so much about abortion embarrassment, abortion grief, but what about abortion joy?”  So, terminating the life of your baby in your womb is now supposed to be a joyful moment?

That one question elucidates the damage that Steinem’s life’s work has done to society and to women. She has turned women into men. She didn’t elevate women; she lowered them to the standards of men. The old saying, ‘if a woman has sex with multiple men, she’s a slut, but if a man has sex with multiple women, he’s a hero.’ Some people see that dichotomy as displaying the unfair cultural inequality of the sexes, but it should really be seen as elucidating the depravity of men. Instead of calling on men to be better, the feminists gave women the license to be worse. Now, it is heroic for women to have many sex partners in their lives. Social media is filled with women bragging about their “body counts”, and if anyone judges them, they are charged with “slut shaming”.

This is why they demand abortion rights. They want to be able to have triple digit body counts without any impediments to their careers and their pursuit of happiness.  Now, we have women who have had multiple abortions in their twenties and are freezing their eggs so they can have children in their forties. They want everything exactly according to their life timelines which will give them the most happiness, and if anything, or anyone gets in the way of that, they demand the right to kill it. And if anyone points out that killing is wrong, the feminists charged them with being oppressive – holding them back from achieving their ultimate happiness.

As a result of sixty years of Steinem’s work, a woman is on trial for murdering her three children – strangling them to death with exercise bands. Nothing could be more fitting to Gloria Steinem’s legacy then for her death to occur in the middle of the Lindsay Clancy trial. Lindsey Clancy wanted to reclaim her life and she saw her three children as an impediment to her happiness, so she had to dispose of them just as a woman who is pregnant has an abortion because having the baby would be an impediment to her happiness.

Even if Clancy was suffering from some sort of mental illness, like she claims, why did she kill her three children? Why was that even an option? Glorious Steinem put that option on the table. Gloria Steinem made it clear that it is good, it is your right as a woman to kill your babies, if that makes your life better. Killing your babies is no longer a cultural taboo, it is not only an accepted act, it is an act to be celebrated. It should be seen as a viable option for the woman to achieve her ultimate happiness. Steinem said it very clearly, “women will never have equal rights until they have abortion rights.” Is it just a coincidence that this trial is being held in the same state whose Governor just signed a law making it legal to kill your baby up until the moment it is born?

One of the most troubling parts of this is that there are tens of thousands of women who are publicly supporting Lindsey Clancy, just as they publicly support women choosing to end their baby’s life in the womb. There a very small step from killing your baby inside the womb to killing your babies outside the womb. That is the legacy of Gloria Steinem – dead children.

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.