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Lawrence Lader, Champion of Abortion Rights, Is Dead at 86
NYT ^
| 5/10/06
Posted on 05/10/2006 2:36:17 PM PDT by Borges
Lawrence Lader, a writer who so successfully marshaled his literary and political efforts in support of abortion rights that Betty Friedan, the feminist author, called him the father of the movement, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 86.
The cause was colon cancer, his wife, Joan Summers Lader, said.
Mr. Lader was a major voice in the abortion debate for four decades, becoming a lightning rod for its critics as well as a beacon for its proponents. He wrote influential books and articles on the subject, organized ministers to refer women wanting abortions to doctors as well as referring 2,000 himself, helped found what was long known as the National Abortion Rights Action League and helped win New York State's repeal of abortion restrictions in 1970.
He unsuccessfully sued the Internal Revenue Service to end the Roman Catholic Church's tax exemptions on the ground that its opposition to abortion had veered into the political arena. He successfully challenged some restrictions on the drug RU-486, known as the morning-after pill, and arranged to manufacture a version of it in the United States.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; coloncancer; cultureofdeath; eugenics; fatherofmovement; lawrencelader; naral; obituary; prolife; ru486
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posted on
05/10/2006 2:36:19 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
Author should be "DOUGLAS MARTIN"
2
posted on
05/10/2006 2:36:56 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
Now the souls of millions of murdered children will have their revenge.
3
posted on
05/10/2006 2:37:29 PM PDT
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: Borges
Well, I guess he knows the truth now. Too bad it took this long.
4
posted on
05/10/2006 2:37:42 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Borges
Is he another one of those 'eugenics' racists like Margaret Sanger who used 'abortion rights' as just another racist tool?
5
posted on
05/10/2006 2:38:18 PM PDT
by
mnehring
(http://abaraxas.blogspot.com/)
To: Borges
Extremely late term, . . .
6
posted on
05/10/2006 2:41:13 PM PDT
by
SmithL
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: Borges
YOU DIED 86 YEARS TOO LATE YOU PIECE OF EXCREMENT
Where you are now, I am assured that you are NOT smiling.
7
posted on
05/10/2006 2:42:38 PM PDT
by
montag813
To: Borges
Lawrence Lader, a writer who so successfully marshaled his literary and political efforts in support of abortion rights that Betty Friedan, the feminist author, called him the father of the movement,...Really? The "father"? What a jaw-dropping malapropism.
To: Borges
on the drug RU-486, known as the morning-after pillRU-486 is not the morning-after pill.
9
posted on
05/10/2006 2:43:51 PM PDT
by
krb
(ad hominem arguments are for stupid people)
To: Gordongekko909
Now the souls of millions of murdered children will have their revenge.
Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord. How sad this man will feel when confronted by the Almighty and told that the souls of the thousands of babies he helped kill have been praying for him continuously all his life.
I hope that he had a deathbed conversion. I really do.
10
posted on
05/10/2006 2:44:35 PM PDT
by
Antoninus
(I will not vote for a liberal, regardless of party.)
To: Borges
Lawrence Lader...[supporter] of abortion rights ... Betty Friedan called him the father of the movement... Oh, the sad irony of that insipid remark...
11
posted on
05/10/2006 2:44:51 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(We are RepubliCANs, not RepubliCAN'Ts.)
To: Borges
May his soul burn in hell.
12
posted on
05/10/2006 2:46:12 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Support American sovereignty - boycott employers of illegal aliens)
To: Antoninus
You mean MILLIONS.
And, I agree, I hope he did repent at the end.
13
posted on
05/10/2006 2:47:15 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
To: montag813
"Hi! Do you know me? I championed the brutal murders
of millions of innocents! And now I'm going straight to hell!
Hitler's an amateur next to me! Nice knowin' y'all!"
14
posted on
05/10/2006 2:48:06 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(We are RepubliCANs, not RepubliCAN'Ts.)
To: Antoninus
I agree, as Christians we should hope that he repented. I find myself struggling with that with some of these evil people, but you are right.
15
posted on
05/10/2006 2:48:49 PM PDT
by
CharlieOK1
(Did you get that thing I sent ya?)
To: Borges
Larry is standing before God now and I guarantee he is not wearing that dopey smile on his face anymore.
To: Borges
...organized ministers to refer women wanting abortions to doctors... Bloody hell!
How "nice" of the NYTimes to call him the "father of" the abortion movement.
17
posted on
05/10/2006 2:50:59 PM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(Don't use illegals: HIREPATRIOTS.COM)
To: CharlieOK1
18
posted on
05/10/2006 2:52:15 PM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(Don't use illegals: HIREPATRIOTS.COM)
To: mnehrling
He did write a biography of Sanger so perhaps he was like-minded.
19
posted on
05/10/2006 2:53:40 PM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(Don't use illegals: HIREPATRIOTS.COM)
To: newzjunkey
That's the nasty little secret of Abortion Rights history, it was started by a bunch of racists who wanted to reduce minority populations. It had nothing to do with 'liberating women'...
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posted on
05/10/2006 2:55:22 PM PDT
by
mnehring
(http://abaraxas.blogspot.com/)
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