Gloria Steinem's Touching Tribute to Doctor Who Made Her Abortion Possible
Her memoir, set for Sept. 22 from Random House, reflects on six decades of activism and the movement she helped build.
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Gloria Steinem’s letter to the doctor who helped her get an abortion
In a 2022 interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Steinem read the dedication she wrote to the London doctor who helped her obtain an abortion at age 22 and asked her to promise to “do what you want to do with your life.”
The feminism that Gloria Steinem embodied, by which in the 1960s she took to the road to defend the rights of women, was not a category, nor a label, it was a way of being and being in the world.
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Just ten years and a few days ago I had a telephone conversation with Gloria Steinem (1934-2016). Her memoirs, entitled ‘My Life on the Road’ (Alpha Decay) and which she dedicated to the London physician that in 1957, “a decade before it was legal in England to perform abortions except in the event that the woman’s life was in danger, she took the considerable risk of helping a 22-year-old American on her way to India,” were to be published in S…
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