Gloria Steinem: ‘Anti-Choice Forces’ of The Right Are Taking Us Backwards on Abortion

‘Most Americans don’t know who their state legislators are, and that’s why ... an anti-choice right-wing minority is able to do this state by state’

HOST: “A couple questioners asked whether 40 years after Roe v. Wade we are moving backwards rather than forwards on women's right to choose. One questioner asked, 'What do you think about the fact that women in your home city of Toledo can no longer obtain an abortion without driving over an hour?’”
STEINEM: “Yes, we are moving backward, not in public opinion. You know, if you look at, properly phrased, who should make this decision, the government or the individual? Overwhelming majority say it shouldn't be the government. It should be the individual and the physician. So we're not moving backward in public opinion. But we are moving backward in -- as we can see, the anti-choice forces have not been too successful in Washington, so they have moved to state legislatures."

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