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Planned Parenthood President: Abortion Gives Women “An Equal Seat at Life’s Table”
LIFE NEWS ^ | September 7, 2018 | Micaiah Bilger

Posted on 09/07/2018 2:03:58 PM PDT by Morgana

The former president of Planned Parenthood told a crowd of impressionable young college students Thursday that abortion is essential to gender equality.

The Cornell Daily Sun reports Gloria Feldt, who led the abortion chain in the 1990s and early 2000s, spoke at Cornell University during an event sponsored by Cornell Hillel. The title of her talk was “3 Truths About Sex, Power and Leadership.”

Like many pro-abortion feminists, Feldt claimed that abortion (women’s legal ability to kill their unborn babies) is empowering for women as they compete with men for power.

“Sex is about power, more than anything else,” Feldt said. “That’s why I am focused on gender parity, to change the power paradigm of our culture. We need to change the way we think about power as not just a finite pie, but as something we can all utilize to improve the world.”

The report continues:

As part of this theme, Feldt discussed the societal progress in gender equality and women’s rights that occurred over the course of her career.

This included the passage of Roe v. Wade, a landmark court case that legalized abortion within the United States, and the creation and widespread adoption of new forms of contraception like the birth control pill.

“It’s about whether women will have an equal seat at life’s table,” Feldt said of these advancements. “If we can’t have control of our own bodies, we can’t have control of much else.”

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On the surface, Feldt sounds like a strong advocate for women. But a closer consideration of what she is saying reveals a demeaning and deadly agenda for women and children. She demeans women by suggesting that women cannot be equal to men unless they can kill their own children.

Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo, an assistant professor at Texas State University, recently responded to this dangerous and pervasive idea at The Public Discourse.

“Identifying abortion with women’s freedom is conceding the idea that male biology and male experience are the paramount ideal for human experience,” Menchaca-Bagnulo wrote. “… freedom does not require women to become like men. The price of freedom should not force us to change something essential about ourselves and our capacities.”

Nor should freedom come at the price of one’s own children. Yet, this is what pro-abortion feminists openly and proudly advocate for today.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; cornell; cornelluniversity; feldt; gloriafeldt; plannedparenthood; proaborts; prolife
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To: FrankR
Both sexes have to do “something” to avoid unwanted pregnancies.

Both sexes have to do something to CREATE "unwanted" pregnancies. Actions have consequences. Murdering children is just avoidance of a consequence.

21 posted on 09/07/2018 2:35:49 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Morgana

And the aborted human has no seat at all. That is equality? Nonsense!


22 posted on 09/07/2018 2:37:00 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Morgana

My equal seat says you don’t get to own death and leave me out of the decision but, make me responsible for life and while still leaving me out of the decision demand portion of my income...


23 posted on 09/07/2018 2:40:45 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: Morgana

So women are too weak to manage a career and parenthood?


24 posted on 09/07/2018 2:42:03 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Morgana

Allah shall punish this infidel woman.


25 posted on 09/07/2018 2:42:13 PM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: TruthFactor
Any nation that condones abortion as a form of birth control is doomed.

It's time to remember what people post in threads here about archaeological discoveries of child sacrifice: "all cultures are equal!"

26 posted on 09/07/2018 2:42:30 PM PDT by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude orhttp mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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To: IronJack

It puzzles me how the young women who participate in these abortion rights protests would likely cry for days if someone cut off the head of a cute little puppy or kitten.

But somehow they are inured to any pain from sticking scissors in the head of their own almost-born infants.


27 posted on 09/07/2018 2:43:55 PM PDT by angry elephant (My MAGA cap is from a rally in Washingon state in May 2016)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

It denies a seat at life’s table for the women-to-be that the table sitters have murdered to get there.


28 posted on 09/07/2018 2:53:25 PM PDT by DPMD
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To: Morgana

Please, tell me more about life, Gloria! Is it good?

29 posted on 09/07/2018 3:14:36 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Morgana

“”If we can’t have control of our own bodies, we can’t have control of much else.””

None of them have ever learned the word NO? They are all so disgusting. It’s all about not taking responsibility for their own actions. It’s their failure - theirs alone.

Never could understand why they get hung up on the term “reproductive rights”. Reproductive implies something is being reproduced. They aren’t reproducing anything but there sure is a lot of stupidity going on!


30 posted on 09/07/2018 3:21:36 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Morgana

it SHOULD get them a seat at “25 to life”’s table. Because abortion is state sanctioned homicide. It violates God’s laws and is at the minimum manslaughter.


31 posted on 09/07/2018 4:04:13 PM PDT by KTM rider ( .......than to post and remove all doubt)
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To: Morgana

That pregnancy thing is such a drag. Men think they are the center of the world. Anyone who gets pregnant is a sucker. /sarc.

Definition of narcissistic
: of, relating to, or characterized by narcissism: such as
a : extremely self-centered with an exaggerated sense of self-importance : marked by or characteristic of excessive admiration of or infatuation with oneself

a narcissistic personality

He was a very narcissistic man, not too concerned with the world. —Oliver Sacks

But when a mother’s narcissistic needs are so great that she cannot relate to her child as he really is, she loves her child as a self-object—that is, as someone put on this earth to meet her needs. —Sue Erikson Bloland

— see also narcissistic personality disorder
b : displaying or marked by excessive concern with one’s own physical appearance

… she describes the bind created for women by the judgment that a woman preoccupied with her looks is narcissistic and a woman who is not is unfeminine. —Carol Gilligan

Our narcissistic culture has turned us into a nation of body-image “junkies” using everything in our power to carve, reshape, remold, and recast our bodies’ natural shapes and processes so that they are better fitted to our desires. —Andrew Kimbrell


32 posted on 09/07/2018 4:25:43 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Morgana

Unless it is an incipient woman on the verge of birth.


33 posted on 09/07/2018 5:09:23 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Morgana
An American male doctor made the mistake of saying women get paid less because they don't work as hard, think about family and social life. Fox news et al. Apologized profusely and heard today he had to quit.

So many one-child couples in US and Europe not to mention the other problems.

34 posted on 09/07/2018 5:26:49 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Morgana

The highest footing is to love and protect innocent life. When that isn’t done it means that things have sunk to deplorably low and horrifically nasty and evil levels. Women who murder children in their mother’s wombs have sunken to the lowest levels a human being can sink. Women use to be, in particular, the lovers, nurturers and protectors of human life. Women use to have a high and elevated position. Not these woman.


35 posted on 09/07/2018 9:01:23 PM PDT by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus? He says absolutely amazing things, which few dare consider.)
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To: Morgana

Yeah - makes them equal to such as Caligula/Stalin/Pol Pot and other notable killers....


36 posted on 09/08/2018 3:06:00 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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