Lawrence Lader figures prominently in Dr. Bernard Nathanson's book "Aborting America" (Doubleday - 1979). Nathanson was the co-director of NARAL, or the "National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws", in the late '60s and says Lader was the force behind making opposition to abortion look like a strictly Catholic issue, or at least an issue dear to the Catholic hierarchy out of step with everyday parishioners. In the book Nathanson refers to him as a "virulent anti-Catholic bigot." The man was shystie and couldn't just make the case for abortion in an aboveboard way without resorting to religious prejudice.
Earlier reports that his mother was waiting with a pair of brandished scissors for his expected arrival were met with criticism by his remaining family members.