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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alexandra Olson and Claire Savage

Gloria Steinem lived to see a powerful backlash against her vision of feminism

Gloria Steinem - (AP)

It was the fight for abortion rights that launched Gloria Steinem into feminism.

The idea that women couldn't reach equality without the ability to decide whether or when to have children was central to the feminist movement of the late 1960s, which Steinem came to embody until her death at age 92 on Wednesday.

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