{"id":177374,"date":"2019-01-20T14:53:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T20:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=177374"},"modified":"2019-01-23T21:27:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T03:27:07","slug":"father-abortion-rights-minorities-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/father-abortion-rights-minorities-need\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Father of abortion rights’: Minorities need abortion to prevent future ‘drug addicts’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lawrence “Larry” Lader, the “father of the abortion rights movement,” was inspired by eugenicist Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger, which influenced his own pro-eugenics ideology.\u00a0Lader was a writer-turned-abortion enthusiast who penned several books on the subject. His 1966 book, “Abortion,” was cited several times in the Roe v. Wade<\/em> decision.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0Lader was not as direct as Sanger. While Sanger openly used eugenic terms, Lader was more subtle, claiming that society needed to look out for the “protection of the child and its future.” But what Lader really meant was not the future of every<\/em> child, but the future of the elites, the perfect, and those who were mostly Caucasian.<\/p>\n

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Here’s what Lader said<\/a> to WNYC Public Radio (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

In other words, I feel that what we have to protect and that we want to give the mother a chance to protect, is the right to bring into the world one, two, three, whatever number of children she can love, protect, educate, care for. That we cannot, as a society, our own country, in the world, today can no longer afford to bring into the world ten, fifteen children, most of whom will be starving not just in India, but often in our own home, will become the flotsam and jetsam of society, will become the drug addict.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Lader then stressed that the people who needed abortion the most were “the percentage of\u00a0Puerto Ricans,\u00a0Negroes, other minority groups.”<\/p>\n

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Lawrence (Larry) Lader, abortion and eugenics promoter<\/p><\/div>\n

Lader also contradicted himself, calling the preborn child “potential life” on one hand, while also claiming to be “for the protection of the child.”\u00a0In his book, “Abortion,” Lader\u00a0sounded eerily similar to Sanger in her\u00a0promotion<\/a>\u00a0of eugenics — the idea that certain people are “more fit” than others, and that these criteria can decide who should or should not live. During that previously mentioned 1966 WNYC discussion<\/a>, Lader called eugenic protection acts “humanitarian.”<\/p>\n