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The “father of the abortion movement,” Larry Lader, was heavily influenced by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, about whom he wrote a biography. Planned Parenthood was also steeped in eugenics from its beginning, and boasted a list of eugenics proponents as its board members. Although the two shared a eugenics ideology, Lader would eventually part ways with Sanger over abortion. But it was perhaps Sanger’s warped eugenic ideology that motivated Lader to manipulate the 1960s women’s movement to push for abortion legalization. Lader wasn’t interested in equal rights… just ‘abortion rights’ “Larry never seemed to be interested in the rest...

Currently on a book tour, Ilyse Hogue, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, is claiming that the pro-life movement was not started in response to the treating of humans in the womb as property to be disposed of as a woman sees fit, but as a “Trojan horse to move a deeply unpopular, regressive policy agenda” of “men’s rights.” Hogue fails to mention that in reality, the pro-abortion movement of the 1960s was actually hijacked by men who pressured women’s groups to adopt a pro-abortion position — a decision which deeply divided the women’s movement. Hogue also fails to mention...

Ecologist Garrett Hardin never minced words in presenting his unvarnished view of humanity's impact on the planet. And he was no less direct in planning his death. On 14 September he and his wife committed suicide at their home in Santa Barbara, California. Hardin was 88, and his wife Jane was 81. Both were in very poor health. Hardin is best known for his 1968 article in Science, "The Tragedy of the Commons" (13 December 1968, p. 1243). In it he argued that if everyone had free access to common property, the resource would be lost to all. But Hardin...