Dr. Bernard Nathanson was instrumental in making abortion legal in New York in the 1970s. He was the cofounder of NARAL, then the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, now NARAL Pro-Choice America. He described how the pro-choice activists, who were mostly white and upper class, wanted to appeal to the masses by having “token” minorities in the public eye:
Nathanson quotes Laurence Lader, his cofounder of NARAL:
“We’ve got to keep the women out in front…. And some blacks. Black women especially. Why are they so damn slow to see the importance of this whole movement to themselves?”
Bernard N Nathanson, M.D. with Richard N Ostling. Aborting America (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1979) 53
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