{"id":173217,"date":"2019-01-18T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T20:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=173217"},"modified":"2019-01-23T21:31:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T03:31:36","slug":"father-abortion-rights-minority-unwanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/father-abortion-rights-minority-unwanted\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Father of abortion rights’ called minority children in America ‘unwanted’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Believe it or not,\u00a0abortion<\/a> wasn’t originally part of the women’s movement, and it wasn’t introduced to the larger women’s movement by women. Instead, it was introduced by two pro-abortion men who wanted to repeal abortion legislation: Bernard Nathanson and Lawrence Lader. Nathanson was a well-known abortionist who eventually renounced his pro-choice beliefs and his connection to abortion groups, exposing the lies<\/a>\u00a0he told with NARAL (which he helped to found) to legalize abortion. Lader’s role in the fight to legalize abortion began with Planned Parenthood<\/a> founder Margaret Sanger and went all the way to the Supreme Court and the infamous Roe v. Wade<\/em> decision, which forced abortion on the nation.<\/p>\n

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Bernard Nathanson (left) and Lawrence Lader (right) pushed abortion<\/p><\/div>\n

Lader was\u00a0a writer by trade, and in 1961, he published a book on abolitionism before shifting his focus to population control, sterilization, and the abortion pill.<\/p>\n

Through a series of events, Lader and Nathanson influenced feminist icon Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women (NOW) toward endorsing abortion, according to Friedan herself. Author Sue Ellen Browder notes in her book, “Subverted,”<\/a> that Lader and\u00a0Friedan\u00a0met<\/a> in 1942. Friedan would later\u00a0call<\/a> Lader the “Father of the Abortion Rights Movement.”<\/p>\n

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Books on abortion by Larry Lader<\/p><\/div>\n

“Lader knew Betty Friedan very well,” Browder told Live Action President Lila Rose in a recent interview.\u00a0“They were magazine writers together in New York. Larry Lader had graduated from Harvard University. He was fairly independently wealthy… And his greatest passion was to make abortion legal. And he worked on Betty Friedan for years to try to convince her to insert abortion into her list of demands.\u201d<\/p>\n