We have known since the 1980s, when Stanley Rothman published the first of his research on media elites, that those who occupy the command posts in the media are overwhelmingly on the abortion-rights side. That is why they are already lionizing Gloria Steinem, who died at 92. But there is another side to her, one that the media will not discuss.
Is it possible to be “pro-choice” and not anti-Catholic? Of course. Is it possible to be a rabid “pro-choice” activist and not anti-Catholic? Possible, but not likely. That’s because these activists see the Catholic Church as the enemy—they are right about that—and most of them allow their disagreements to spill into bigotry. Steinem was one of them.
Pope John Paul II said Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1995. I was inside. Outside there were more than 1,000 anti-Catholic protesters. They carried signs bashing the pope; they also had signs bashing the Catholic League. Many of the protesters hurled obscenities. This bigoted exercise was led by Steinem and Olympia Dukakis.
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Steinem held a press conference, telling the media, “We will live to see the day that St. Patrick’s Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.”
Steinem put the lie to the notion that “no one is really pro-abortion.” She liked abortion. In fact, she loved it. That is why she happily endorsed a book by atheist and anti-Catholic activist Anne Nicol Gaylor titled, Abortion Is A Blessing. Did she consider it a “blessing” when she aborted her baby at age 22? Not sure, but it would not surprise to learn that she did. After all, she called “National Abortion Providers Appreciation Day” an occasion that recognizes “acts of kindness.”
She was more than pro-abortion—she hated marriage and the family. She made it her ambition to “abolish and reform the institution of marriage.” Anyone who thinks it is a good idea to raise kids absent the institution of marriage is either ignorant of the psychological and social consequences it engenders, or is morally debased beyond recognition.
The other side of Gloria Steinem is not pretty. Indeed, it is quite ugly.
LifeNews Note: Bill Donohue is the president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
