Founders of NARAL both men, stratagized to get women involved

According to author Brian E Fisher  in his book Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women, the early pro-choice movement was originally inspired by men. Founders of NARAL, one of the biggest abortion rights groups for over 50 years, were both men and originally stratagized on how to get women involved.

Co-founder Lawrence Lader:

“if we’re going to move abortion out of the books and into the streets, we’re going to have to recruit the feminists.”

Bernard Nathanson, with Richard N Ostling Aborting America (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1979) 32

C0-founder Bernard Nathanson:

“I figured that if the feminists appeared to take over, the necessary abortion reform would be dismissed by moderates without a fair hearing. I was dead wrong, of course. Lader’s marriage with the feminists was a brilliant tactic.”

Bernard Nathanson, with Richard N Ostling Aborting America (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1979) 50

Bernard Nathanson, later became pro-life

Rosemary Oelrich Bottcher, past president of Feminists for Life, says:

 “The first edition of Betty Friedan’s seminal book, The Feminine Mystique, did not even mention abortion. Legalizing abortion was not on the newborn NOW’s list of issues. In his 1979 book, Aborting America, Dr. Nathanson recalled Lader saying, “… Friedan has got to put her troops into this thing – while she still has control of them.”

When I met Nathanson at the National Right to Life convention in June of 1996, he told me that they convinced the leaders of NOW that easy access to legal abortion was essential to ameliorating the problems that were thwarting the well-being of women, the problems that Friedan had identified in her book.

“We got them to see legal abortion as a civil rights issue, a basic women’s rights issue,” Nathanson explained.”

Rosemary Oelrich Bottcher “Men Launch the Movement to Legalize Abortion”

 

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Sarah Terzo is a pro-life writer and blogger. She is on the board of The Consistent Life Network and PLAGAL +

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