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.
If women let men shoot their sperm all over their landscape, the choice to murder their baby is all on them.
In decades past, women HAD to take responsibility for their bodies. How a man feels after a child is conceived is not the problem. It’s the pregnancy that results from consensual sex between a man who has no obligation to the plaything and the woman who allowed herself to be treated as such.
More blame shifting and excuse making.
Men need to take the role as provider and protector and stop throwing all the responsibility for their behavior on women.
Yeah, because we all know that the world would be perfect if only men were in charge.
And no man ever became a dictator or tyrant without a woman’s input.
It’s a two way street.
Men think they are owed super models for girlfriends and don’t even want to look at women who aren’t.
Men need to man up and stop acting like hormone driven teenagers.
Men are not animals and should not act like them.
It’s clear that men who push women for sex have no respect for them. And they are just blame shifting away their responsibility for acting like a civilized human being instead of a feral alley cat.
You’re projecting again.
Men look for a woman who’s “hood enough” and if she stays as she is, he’ll be content. Men do not tend to monkey-branch nor trade up.
Nor do Men suffer from alpha widow syndrome, turning down plenty of mates who would be just fine while pining for thar one-night-stand or fling, who never was going to, nor will ever, tie the knot with her.
“Yeah, because we all know that the world would be perfect if only men were in charge.”
Not perfect, but women have given us our closest calls to nuclear annihilation in human history.
1. Cuban Missile Crises (Kennedy getting the women’s vote)
2. 1973 Yom Kippur War (due to Golda Mair)
3. Vietnam Evacuation (due to Kennedy again)
4. And now Ukraine and Taiwan (due to Biden winning the women’s vote and the election).
So, yea, I’ll still take men in power.
I hate “otto-corrupt”.
Good enough not hood enough.
Women give permission, make the rules.
In the ‘olden’ days, everyone knew the ‘easy’ girls....always surrounded by guys waiting for their turn to sleep with her.....never the girl anyone wanted to marry. The fact that so many women have embraced the ‘easy girl’ habit doesnt change what men are gonna do.
Want change? Change your OWN behavior....change the rules.
Bring back morals and marriage....two parent families.
It’s not rocket science.
“Men need to take the role as provider and protector”
Why?
We’re told by women that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Or haven’t you heard?
Wrong. The man can choose not to shoot his sperm all over the place, so the responsibility for that is on him.
In decades past, women HAD to take responsibility for their bodies.
Does that include trafficked women?
How a man feels after a child is conceived is not the problem.
That's right. If he fathers a child, then he has to support the child. If he didn't want to be a father, then he should have been careful about who he stuck it into.
It’s the pregnancy that results from consensual sex between a man who has no obligation to the plaything and the woman who allowed herself to be treated as such.
Bull! A man has every responsibility to support the children he fathers. Whether he has any obligation to the woman is another debate that we might actually agree on, but he is responsible for the children he fathers.
As if men never looked down on or shunned a woman who got pregnant out of wedlock.
For centuries unmarried women have been brutally attacked, psychologically and physically, when they got pregnant. Those attackers are just as guilty as the guy who did it and the people who attacked her.
Discussion does not entail rape/incest, as I stated in the beginning.
Bringing in trafficked women: thats rape.
Yes, a man has to support the child, never said he didnt. But he does not owe anything to the woman who had consensual sex and KNEW SHE would bear more of the consequences of her actions. Makes HER the biggest loser....she will make less money and possibly her child will be raised in poverty; it will be difficult for HER to find a marriage partner in the future. She will typically have less of a support system than a wife with husbands family to lean on.
There’s no way a man is going to suffer the same consequences as the woman. It’s a fact that does not change under ‘free sex’ circumstances. And the only people who can change that are WOMEN individually and as a group.
Women have always been the arbiters of what is correct in society...and when they decide to play in the dirt, all of society - particularly the children - suffer.
Women still are the losers.
I know that in *Christian* colleges, used to be that if a girl got pregnant out of wedlock, she had to quit college and was sent home in shame.
What happened to the guy?
Usually nothing.
He was allowed to finish his degree and graduate and go into missions or the ministry, or something.
Mind you, I’m a Christian, but this policy absolutely ROTTED. Talk a bout a two tiered *justice* system.
That girl did NOT get pregnant in a vacuum, and yet she was always the one who bore the blame and was shamed over it.
The double standard men manage to rationalize in their minds is disgusting and hypocritical.
More blame shifting.
If there's one thing men excel at, it's blame shifting for moral failure.
Man was created to be the head of the family and the provider and protector. When he abdicates that responsibility, it is then thrust onto women, where it does NOT belong.
It's laziness on a man's part.
Top Kek.
Women like to post all over social media, “If you liked it, you should have put a ring on it.”
Ummm, if you don’t have a ring on your finger, you shouldn’t be letting him make the beast with two backs with you.
Go find a man who will wait. (*)
...but be prepared to deal with the “no hymen no diamond” reply. If you’ve been giving away the milk for free to other men, don’t expect him to to pay full price for a used heifer.
= = = = = = = =
(*) but those men are icky, square, *boring*. How can she marry if he doesn’t give her the tingles?
YES. That, right there.
Fathers are needed in the home. The left has destroyed the concept of the traditional family.
If a man has not made a commitment to be the provider and protector, the woman is living in lala land. Pretending it means more WITHOUT A COMMITMENT is a fantasy - it’s all in her head.
Men might be lazy, but they arent the ones hitting their forties with no prospects and with that bioclock ticking away.
But keep up the good work. Have a good day.
women also voted for Trump!
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