Gloria Steinem, feminist icon and founder of Ms. Magazine, dies at 92

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : She was honored for her decades-long civil rights work with a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013, as well as the United Nations' Society of Writers Award and the National Gay Rights Advocates Award.
54% : Contradictions and controversy Throughout her career, Steinem was an avid supporter of the right to abortion and access to reproductive care, issues she highlighted in Ms. Magazine.
52% : Steinem was a feminist icon who spent the better part of a century advocating for women's rights in the workplace, the right to abortion and sex education.
52% : In 1968, Steinem was offered a job at the newly founded New York Magazine, where she wrote a column about politics, including articles about Shirley Chisholm's history-making run for president, Nixon's candidacy and a New York abortion speak-out.
52% : I think the person who said: 'Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament' was right.
44% : She had an abortion when she was 22 in London.
44% : And that means that the right to decide whether and when to give birth without government interference.
26% : Abortion "is supposed to make us a bad person.

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