Posted on 06/16/2024 3:45:08 AM PDT by Morgana
The “Father of Abortion Rights,” Larry Lader, held eugenic beliefs inspired by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger — but on abortion, they parted ways, with Lader being extremely in favor of abortion. Lader and his colleague Bernard Nathanson were the two men most instrumental in pushing the 1960’s women’s movement towards abortion.
The reason we know this information, says “Subverted” author Sue Ellen Browder, is because Nathanson, an abortionist who later converted to the pro-life cause, had stories to tell. Image: Larry Lader and Bernard Nathanson. Both men worked against the feminist pro-life movement to push abortion on women.
Browder told Live Action president Lila Rose in an interview, “These two men, Larry Lader and Bernard Nathanson, had founded this organization [NARAL] and… Lader knew Betty Friedan very well. 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 [within the National Organization for Women (NOW)]….”
“We would never had known it was Lader who at last persuaded Betty to insert abortion into NOW’s package of ‘women’s rights’ if it weren’t for the written testimony of a third party who eye-witnessed events as they unfolded behind the scenes,” Browder wrote in her book. That eyewitness was Nathanson.
“If we’re going to move abortion out of the books and into the streets, we’re going to have to recruit the feminists,” Browder quotes Lader as suggesting.
“Friedan has got to put her troops into this thing – while she still has control of them,” Lader stated.
Friedan, Browder notes, had agreed to write a foreword in the jacket of Lader’s book. “He wrote a book on abortion and it was full of half truths, selective truths and truths out of context. But it was trying to prove to women that they need abortion to be free,” Browder stated. “And Betty Friedan bought it. She gave him a wonderful blurb on the back cover saying what a wonderful book this was. So, she now agreed with him.”
Lader wanted to “unleash the fury of women”
Nathanson, who reluctantly agreed to work with Lader in 1967 to convince Friedan’s feminists to support an abortion plank, once admitted, “Larry’s marriage with the feminists was a brilliant tactic.” But Nathanson later regretted the decision.
“In short I found, to my surprise, that I had been subtly dragooned into planning political strategy with Lader,” Nathanson wrote regretfully in his book, “The Hand of God.” Nathanson called himself and Lader “radicals,” writing, “We would settle for nothing less than striking down all existing statutes and substituting abortion on demand.”
The scheme was simple. In “Abortion,” Lader placed the responsibility on women to pronounce abortion as a freedom:
Women themselves must bear the special responsibility of rallying opinion behind reform, standing up and making their demands for justice known throughout the country. Nothing is stronger than the moral power of an idea once it has come of age. And the moral power of legalized abortion will surely prevail when women have directed their anger against the superstitions of centuries, and cried out for the final freedom of procreative choice.
In “Abortion II,” Lader prophetically concluded that to legalize abortion, women would need “to stand before television cameras and describe their own abortions to the public…. It needed brawling women, shouting defiance of the law….” Lader then took credit for convincing women to join, writing, “It took only a few of us in 1966 – the early fanatics – to break the silence and unleash the fury of women. Once the National Organization for Women and Women’s Liberation groups joined the abortion movement, we were ready to shake the country.”
“Significantly, even Friedan, one of the most impressive militants of her time, avoided the abortion issue at first,” Lader recounted in the same book. He wrote, “[W]hile she was writing Mystique, I occasionally suggested that all feminist demands hinged on contraception and abortion and a woman’s control over her own body and procreation. Yet, her book hardly touched this fundamental problem and mentioned Margaret Sanger only peripherally….”
“The breakthrough came slowly,” Lader wrote. “In June 1966, at a meeting of the Commissions on the Status of Women in Washington, Friedan emerged from the status of woman to activist,” Lader said, recounting how Friedan founded NOW. “Although pounding away at the abortion issue in her lectures, she still hesitated to force it into the NOW platform for fear of splitting off Catholics and conservative professionals.”
Then, in a 1966 news conference announcing Lader‘s book, the LA Times recounted how reporters began using new rhetoric, calling abortion “a civil rights movement for women.”
One year later, in 1967, Lader would convince Friedan to add an abortion plank into NOW.
“Friedan has claimed that she did not start out consciously to start to a revolution,” Lader noted in his book “Ideas Triumphant.” But, he said, “This is not completely accurate. At the time she agreed to write a plug for my book jacket in 1965, we were discussing how to turn ideas into organizing. The founding of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966 was pivotal.”
“By bringing NOW and eventually Women’s Lib into the abortion campaign, Friedan assured that the struggle for feminine liberation was solidly rooted in the one base that could turn theory into reality – a woman’s control over her own body and procreation,” Lader wrote in “Abortion II.”
Lader’s abortion obsession continued into the 1990’s when he pushed for the legalization of the abortion pill, RU486. In a 2000 press release, Lader bragged about his “plot” to break the law and smuggle the drug into the US.
He told an audience, “We have all sorts of little tricks; we’re tricky people. We smuggled some in from China through a doctor I knew coming in…. We then set up a very small lab… to make a small amount… and then we were very lucky; we found a very good manufacturer in the US and we have been with them ever since.”
Lader died in 2006 from colon cancer. He was 86.
Meanwhile, all the FR Men’s Women Haters Club members blame it all on women, as if men never did anything wrong and never forced a woman to have an abortion after getting her pregnant.
And of course, it’s not HIS responsibility to prevent the pregnancy. It’s all on her. He’s not expected to show any restraint or self-control. All the free sex he wants and no consequences for him because of it.
Going back to promoting smoking as “torches of freedom” feminism has been used by men to get what they want.
That’s because those leftist men are selfish hedonistic monsters.
It is all on women.
Men can have all the demands they want, but it takes weak, gullible women to actually believe that killing your unborn baby is a ‘right’.
Women achieved contraceptive freedom with the pill - invisible - so having babies became true ‘choice’. Women achieved economic freedom with more opportunities opening up along all career paths......no longer stuck with being a nurse, teacher or housewife.
It’s the man-haters who turned feminism - originally equal pay for equal work and the opportunity to apply for jobs based on ability - into the hatred for men, marriage and traditional values. No one wakes up pregnant. Outside of rape/incest, no one forces women to have sex or have an abortion....and blaming men for it has destroyed our country.
It’s a cult - and only the weak-minded belong to it.
Men don’t care at all about a woman’s “right” to kill her child. They care about being able to have an affair with an out in case the mistress gets pregnant. They care about not having to lose everything when the wife finds out. They care about not having to pay child support for 18 years. Ladies, men don’t care about your “right” to kill your/his child. They just care about having sex with you.
I don’t get the term “Planned parenthood” when it really means “Planned nonparenthood”.
“Meanwhile, all the FR Men’s Women Haters Club members blame it all on women...”
BINGO!
Yes! Thank you!
Alpha men have benefitted the most. The rest of men have to pick up the pieces.
Remember Our Gang or The Little Rascals?
It reminds me of the “He-man woman haters club”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OTYdizres8
“All the free sex he wants and no consequences for him because of it.”
And who is to blame for that?
You give away something for free with no strings attached there’ll be plenty of takers.
Feminism has encouraged women to be sluts, to give away for free the thing men crave most from women. Prior to the “sexual (slut) revolution”, women understood the worth of what’s between their legs and would drive a tough bargain before making it available. Today they spread their legs for a wink.
Being a slut was something to be ashamed of. Today they have slut parades.
Feminism has been a disaster for women, has turned many men into pigs, all at the detriment of society.
Do you agree?
I don't agree. Men know what can happen when they shoot their sperm all over the landscape. They know that they can make a baby, or worse have the baby they made aborted. They think they're victims of forced fatherhood if a baby is born, or glad they got out of that situation otherwise.
Of course, I'm talking about the men who don't man up. There are many that do.
But let's just say men are less guilty than the women who abort their children. Will their spot in the afterlife be any less hot than the unrepentant women who aborted their children?
“Larry Lader had graduated from Harvard University.”
Other than the Tea Party (which was later infiltrated and corrupted by the feds), I cannot think of a SINGLE mass movement that was not STARTED by someone with a background similar to the above.
Men have pushed for women to be sluts.
They want all the sex and then insist on virgins for wives.
This business of men not being expected to exercise some self-control is simply an excuse and blame shifting.
Men are just as capable of demanding sexual purity as women instead of acting like a bunch of alley cats and demanding virtue in women.
Men bear responsibility in this whole matter as well.
Amen, Metmom. If men want to be the strong leaders, why don’t they take the lead in this matter? Stop demanding sex from women before marriage. Some women who would make fine wives and mothers never marry because so many men aren’t interested in a woman who refuses to put out before the wedding night.
“Men have pushed for women to be sluts.”
Of course, just like deadbeats push for more welfare. But it is to the woman’s own interest to resist that. Is it not? Or are women incapable of determining what is in their interest?
And they did just that prior to the Betty Friedans and Gloria Steinems and their free love cohorts... and of course, the pill.
Don’t you lock the door to your house at night and when you’re away? Or do you just rely on everybody being a saint?
“Meanwhile, all the FR Men’s Women Haters Club members blame it all on women”
Men also gave women the right to vote, which is VERY QUICKLY resulting the re-population of formerly white countries and could very easily end with the extinction of White people. None of this would be happening if JFK didn’t get the ‘women’s vote’ in 1960 leading to Kennedy Immigration Bill in 1965, which authorized the repopulation program.
You’re projecting.
If she says no, she’s not getting pregnant outside of rape, which is already illegal.
“My body, my choice, HIS fault” —every feminist ever, and a good number of churchgoing women and their pet cucks.
You’re typical.
Women judge all men by the 10%-20% of most sexually attractive men who they sleep with, hoping to land him.
The bottom 70% of men are currently invisible to women.
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