{"id":228690,"date":"2020-08-18T12:43:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=228690"},"modified":"2021-07-13T16:40:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T21:40:52","slug":"not-just-planned-parenthood-naral-eugenicist-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/not-just-planned-parenthood-naral-eugenicist-founders\/","title":{"rendered":"Not just Planned Parenthood: A look at NARAL&#8217;s racist, eugenicist founders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Currently on a book tour, Ilyse Hogue, the president of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/01\/15\/opinion\/don-t-compromise-on-abortion.html\">NARAL Pro-Choice America<\/a>, is claiming that the pro-life movement was not started in response to the treating of humans in the womb as property to be disposed of as a woman sees fit, but as a &#8220;Trojan horse to move a deeply unpopular, regressive policy agenda&#8221; of &#8220;men&#8217;s rights.&#8221; Hogue fails to mention that in reality, the pro-abortion movement of the 1960s was actually\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/T3KFXqOCE7c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hijacked<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/men-hijacked-womens-movement-benefit\/\"><em>men who pressured women&#8217;s groups to adopt a pro-abortion position<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a decision which deeply divided the women&#8217;s movement.<\/p>\n<p>Hogue also fails to mention that NARAL itself was founded largely by men, a fact which National Organization for Women (NOW) founder and NARAL co-founder Betty\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?9556-1\/decides-political-action-prochoice\">Friedan<\/a>\u00a0admitted to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?9556-1\/decides-political-action-pro-choice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an audience<\/a>\u00a0in 1989 where she said &#8220;women were not the majority of people&#8221; who helped to form the organization. Two of NARAL\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070922133608\/http:\/\/oasis.lib.harvard.edu\/oasis\/deliver\/~sch00781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three member<\/a> pre-formation planning committee were men:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/saynsumthn.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/23\/former-margaret-sanger-award-winner-and-promponent-of-forced-abortion-was-on-the-board-of-anti-immigration-organization-fair\/\">Garrett Hardin<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/father-abortion-rights-minorities-need\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lawrence Lader<\/a>, who held and promoted radical racist, eugenicist ideas about population control.<\/p>\n<p>Because Hogue is not being forthcoming about the history of her own organization, here is what readers should know about the founding ideals of one of the nation&#8217;s most powerful pro-abortion lobbying groups.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_228781\" style=\"width: 627px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-228781\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-228781\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Larry-Lader-and-Garrett-Hardin-NARAL-founders.jpg\" alt=\"Image: Larry Lader and Garrett Hardin NARAL founders\" width=\"617\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Larry-Lader-and-Garrett-Hardin-NARAL-founders.jpg 1538w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Larry-Lader-and-Garrett-Hardin-NARAL-founders-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Larry-Lader-and-Garrett-Hardin-NARAL-founders-768x330.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Larry-Lader-and-Garrett-Hardin-NARAL-founders-700x300.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Larry-Lader-and-Garrett-Hardin-NARAL-founders-500x215.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-228781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Lader and Garrett Hardin, two of NARAL&#8217;s founders<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Garrett Hardin: &#8220;Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Garrett Hardin\u00a0was a &#8220;leading ecological thinker, whose views influenced debates on abortion, immigration, foreign aid, overpopulation, and other provocative issues,&#8221;\u00a0according to a University of California\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131206160803\/https:\/\/senate.universityofcalifornia.edu\/inmemoriam\/garretthardin.htm\">archived history<\/a> of Hardin. But the NARAL founding member was also disturbingly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/voices\/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described<\/a> by UC Political Science Professor Matto Mildenberger as &#8220;a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/fighting-hate\/extremist-files\/individual\/garrett-hardin\">racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamophobe<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hardin\u00a0was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cairn-int.info\/article-E_RHMC_601_0007--cold-war-pastures-garrett-hardin-and.htm#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leader<\/a> of the American Eugenics Society perhaps best known for his essay, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/162\/3859\/1243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tragedy of the Commons<\/a>,&#8221; published in 1968,\u00a0a year before joining the NARAL founding committee. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2003-sep-20-me-hardin20-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LA Times<\/a>, Hardin argued &#8220;that humanity must curtail some of its freedoms to stave off overpopulation and environmental disasters.&#8221;\u00a0His ideas mirrored those of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, who once <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/how-planned-parenthood-abortion-corporation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advocated<\/a> requiring families to obtain licenses to have children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all&#8230; The only way we can preserve and nurture other and more precious freedoms is by relinquishing the freedom to breed, and that very soon,&#8221; Hardin stated.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_172365\" style=\"width: 677px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172365\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-172365\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/License-to-Breed-Margaret-Sanger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/License-to-Breed-Margaret-Sanger.jpg 667w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/License-to-Breed-Margaret-Sanger-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/License-to-Breed-Margaret-Sanger-500x337.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-172365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">License to Breed Margaret Sanger<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two years after the founding of NARAL, Hardin again suggested in a New York Times op-ed that the &#8220;Right to Breed&#8221; was not an absolute freedom, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1971\/05\/06\/archives\/the-right-to-breed-freedom-to-procreate-equals-freedom-to-starve.html?searchResultPosition=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writing<\/a> in part:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Having given up so many freedoms already it is natural to resist giving up this additional one, the freedom to breed&#8230; Unfortunately, logic and experience show that continuing to support the right to breed is suicidal&#8230; It is not a question of freedom vs. nonfreedom. If we defend the freedom to breed, we shall ultimately lose all other freedoms as a result of unbearable overcrowding.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;There is always infanticide to fall back on&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Hardin, &#8220;If abortion did not solve the planning problem there was always infanticide to fall back on&#8230; Most people think that the practice of infanticide is confined to savages. This is not true,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1971\/05\/06\/archives\/the-right-to-breed-freedom-to-procreate-equals-freedom-to-starve.html?searchResultPosition=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the starving poor in Ethiopia, the New York Times separately\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1987\/06\/30\/science\/a-tough-minded-ecologist-comes-to-defense-of-malthus.html?searchResultPosition=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0Hardin as once suggesting, &#8220;[I]f you give food and save lives and thus increase the number of people, you increase suffering and ultimately increase the loss of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-228747 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Legal-birth-limits-may-be-last-hope-Garret-Hardin-on-coercive-sterilization.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Legal-birth-limits-may-be-last-hope-Garret-Hardin-on-coercive-sterilization.jpg 615w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Legal-birth-limits-may-be-last-hope-Garret-Hardin-on-coercive-sterilization-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Legal-birth-limits-may-be-last-hope-Garret-Hardin-on-coercive-sterilization-500x534.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Coerced &#8220;sterilization doesn&#8217;t seem so bad&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1971, The Gadsden Times <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?id=XqsfAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=mdYEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=837,222142&amp;dq=garrett+hardin+planned+parenthood&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documented<\/a> Hardin&#8217;s coercive abortion and sterilization ideas, quoting Hardin as saying, &#8220;Let&#8217;s call it X number. Now, when a woman goes in to have that X child, she would be advised that she has the alternative of sterilization, if she so desires. But after that X child, X plus 1, she would no longer have an alternative. She would by law be required to have an abortion and sterilization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea of sterilization as punishment is unrealistic&#8230;. But if we think of it in fact as helping the woman, the family and the world, sterilization doesn&#8217;t seem so bad,&#8221; Hardin added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the case of overpopulation, Hardin said, the coercion could take the form of China\u2019s one-child law, or regulations offering tax credits only for the first two children in a family,&#8221; the previously mentioned Los Angeles Times article added.<\/p>\n<p>Hardin was against immigration, reportedly because &#8220;most immigrants into the United States&#8230; have been Mexicans, blacks from the Caribbean and Africa, and Asians,&#8221; and according to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.garretthardinsociety.org\/tributes\/tr_lynn_2001.html\">Garret Hardin Society website<\/a>, Hardin believed that &#8220;an increasingly multicultural society&#8221; was &#8220;a recipe for social disorder&#8230;.&#8221; In 1990, Hardin was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garretthardinsociety.org\/gh\/gh_cv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">awarded<\/a> by the anti-immigration Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), where he <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20000531014154\/http:\/\/fairus.org\/html\/02002710.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">served<\/a> as a board member.<\/p>\n<p>In 1974, Hardin was elected into membership in the American Philosophical Society, and he received\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060207031702\/http:\/\/www.pioneerfund.org\/Grantees.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funding<\/a> from the Pioneer Fund, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060207031728\/http:\/\/www.pioneerfund.org\/Founders.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">founders<\/a> were high ranking officers of the American eugenics movement. Hardin and his wife were deeply involved with Zero Population Growth and Planned Parenthood, and in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garretthardinsociety.org\/gh\/gh_cv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1980<\/a> he received Planned Parenthood&#8217;s Margaret Sanger Award. Hardin belonged to the Hemlock Society and took his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2003-sep-20-me-hardin20-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">own life<\/a> in 2003.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Larry Lader: &#8220;Father of Abortion Rights&#8221; believed minorities needed abortion the most<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/05\/10\/nyregion\/lawrence-lader-champion-of-abortion-rights-is-dead-at-86.html?searchResultPosition=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">founding member<\/a> of NARAL, Larry Lader was <a href=\"http:\/\/oasis.lib.harvard.edu\/oasis\/deliver\/~sch00781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joined<\/a> by former abortionist (later turned pro-life activist) Bernard Nathanson, who later\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fooled-abortion-bans-didnt-thousands-deaths\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exposed<\/a> how NARAL deceived the American public with inflated deaths of women from illegal abortion.\u00a0According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/05\/10\/nyregion\/lawrence-lader-champion-of-abortion-rights-is-dead-at-86.html?searchResultPosition=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a>, Lader and other &#8220;radicals&#8221; met in his apartment on July 30, 1968, and in July of 1969, they met in Chicago and formed the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL).<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Hiding the eugenic agenda<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lader, dubbed the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/father-abortion-rights-minority-unwanted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Father of the Abortion Rights<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0was a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/father-abortion-disciple-planned-parenthood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">biographer<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/father-abortion-disciple-planned-parenthood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disciple<\/a>\u00a0of Margaret Sanger.\u00a0While Sanger openly used eugenic terms when she spoke, Lader was more <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/father-abortion-rights-minorities-need\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subtle<\/a>, claiming that society needed to look out for the \u201cprotection of the child and its future.\u201d But what Lader really meant was not the future of\u00a0<em>every<\/em>\u00a0child, but the future of the elites, the perfect, and those who were mostly Caucasian. Still, Lader maintained that in order for abortion to be legalized, the eugenic agenda must be hidden from the public, and \u201cwomen\u2026 and some Blacks\u201d must be kept \u201cout front\u201d once\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/feminist-sold-abortion-reverence-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recruited<\/a>\u00a0to the cause.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Minority children are &#8220;unwanted&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/father-abortion-rights-minority-unwanted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writings<\/a>, Lader bemoaned that the \u201cbalance\u201d of adoptable babies had shifted from white babies to minority children, which he called \u201cunwanted,\u201d writing that the critical problem was \u201cin New York and many cities with minority populations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[T]he excess for infants for adoption are mainly Negro and Puerto Rican,\u201d he claimed, and added that the cost of welfare to care for such &#8220;illegitimate children&#8221; was &#8220;steep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lader\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/father-abortion-rights-minorities-need\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggested<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cPuerto Ricans,\u00a0Negroes, [and] other minority groups\u201d were the groups who needed abortion the most, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/story\/abortion-legal-medical-and-historical-perspectives?tab=transcript\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">telling<\/a>\u00a0WNCY that society can &#8220;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,\u00a0<strong>will become the flotsam and jetsam of society, will become the drug addict<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his 1966 book, \u201cAbortion,\u201d he stressed, \u201cWe will only defeat ourselves by producing an endless cycle of unwanted children. Those born in slums, for example, denied even the smallest share of education and economic opportunity, have little chance of realizing their full potential as citizens.\u201d There, he mirrored the claims of Garrett Hardin, whom he quoted as saying, \u201cWhen unwanted children become parents they are more likely than others to be poor parents themselves and breed another generation of unwanted children. This is a vicious cycle if there ever was one. It is ruinous to the social system.\u201d (p. 156)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbove all, society must grasp the grim relationship between unwanted children and the violent rebellion of minority groups,\u201d Lader went on to state.<\/p>\n<p>Lader remained active in NARAL until 1976, when he left for reasons \u201cno one chooses to discuss,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/1995-11-30\/news\/ls-8883_1_lawrence-lader\">noted<\/a>\u00a0the LA Times.<\/p>\n<p>Today, NARAL has purged these eugenicists from its public pages. In addition, NARAL has in recent years also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-industry-untouched-systemic-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failed<\/a>\u00a0to condemn modern systemic racism and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sexual-abuse-allegations-shook-abortion-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">misogyny<\/a> within the abortion movement, even\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-industry-untouched-systemic-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praising<\/a> Planned Parenthood&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-systemic-racism-white-supremacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racist<\/a> founder Margaret Sanger.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently on a book tour, Ilyse Hogue, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, is claiming that the pro-life movement was not started in response to the treating of humans in the womb as property to be disposed of as a woman sees fit, but as a &#8220;Trojan horse to move a deeply unpopular, regressive policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":209655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2793,10628],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Not just Planned Parenthood: A look at NARAL&#039;s racist, eugenicist founders<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two of NARAL\u2019s three member pre-formation planning committee were Garrett 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