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(NewsBusters<\/a>) The democracy of American women\u00a0depends on the\u00a0ability to end the lives of their unborn babies, according to one feminist leader beloved by the media.\u00a0On Monday, AP correspondent Julie Carr Smyth reported<\/a> that just \u201chours\u201d after pressure from feminist Gloria Steinem, a hospital system entered a patient-transfer agreement with the last abortion clinic in Toledo, Ohio. Steinem asked both ProMedica and St. Luke’s Hospital to work with abortion provider Capital Care of Toledo, so that it wouldn\u2019t close down due to state regulation. ProMedica complied.<\/p>\n

A Toledo native, the 83-year-old Steinem released\u00a0a statement to the hospitals.<\/p>\n

“We must not allow a political regulatory scheme to close Toledo’s remaining abortion clinic,” she began. “Its absence would not diminish the number of abortions but would increase the injury and death of women in my home city and state.\u201d<\/p>\n

One life always perishes\u00a0in abortion, but Steinem paid no attention to that.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocracy begins with each person’s control of his or her own body,\u201d she concluded. \u201cWithout reproductive freedom, there is no democracy for America[n] women.”<\/p>\n

In other words, women’s voices being heard relies on the snuffing out of others’. That’s hardly the definition of “democracy.”<\/p>\n

This is hardly the first time\u00a0Steinem has issued comments like that. In 2015, Steinem blamed<\/a> Pope Francis for \u201ccausing\u201d global warming by \u201cforcing women to have children\u201d to Cosmo.\u00a0Two years later, she\u00a0stressed<\/a>\u00a0to The Week<\/em> that \u201cto be right-to-life for the fetus is to be dangerous for women’s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at NewsBusters<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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