Dr. Bernard Nathanson, in his memoirs about the push for abortion (he was pro-abortion at the time, but afterwards turned prolife) says that the feminist orgnizations at the time were NOT on board.
NOW (Betty Friedan and Pauli Murray) thought it was too radical and would discredit the equal-rights aspect of their work. The NOW Statement of Purpose (1966) and "Bill of Right for Women" adopted at their 1967 national conference, were centered on the Equal Rights Amendment, and no mention of abortion!!
Legalization was NOT surging through the legislatures in the late-60'sand early-70's-- creeping at best, and in some states being turned back ---in the states, and the pro-abort forces knew there was no way they could get a popular mandate for it through the normal political process.
That's why Bill Baird, Bernard Nathanson and Larry Lader --- with the handful of feminist allies they recruited, like Sarah Weddington --- went for a Supreme Court diktat --- because it was not at the time a women's priority at all.
Read the history. It's absolutely stunning.
I’ll continue to stand on what I stated.
BTW I was there in that fight.... I watched Clergy and mothers driving young high school girls to clinics to abort their babies and fathers begging their daughters not to do this. So I am well acquainted with where the blame and responsibility lays.
This would have never happened had the American people stood against it. There would be no abortion....and it certainly was well known about. It was not done in secret.
I’ll continue to stand on what I stated.
BTW I was there in that fight.... I watched Clergy and mothers driving young high school girls to clinics to abort their babies and fathers begging their daughters not to do this. So I am well acquainted with where the blame and responsibility lays.
This would have never happened had the American people stood against it. There would be no abortion....and it certainly was well known about. It was not done in secret.