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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Early pro-abortion movement most supported by men

A California woman actively working to repeal abortion in the 1960s, Pat Maginnis, said that she:

“rued the low level of activity on behalf of liberalization, particularly by women and told [American Civil Liberties Union cofounder] Morris Ernst that “the men have given us the greatest support.”

David J Garrow Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe V Wade (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1994) 292

Quoted in Brian E Fisher Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women (Frisco, Texas: Online for Life, 2013) Kindle edition

 

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Alice Paul called abortion “killing unborn women”

Alice Paul was the writer of the ERA.

Alice Paul, according to her lifelong friend Evelyn Judge, referred to abortion as “killing unborn women.”

“Alice Paul” entry in the New World Encyclopedia

Quoted in Brian E Fisher Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women (Frisco, Texas: Online for Life, 2013) Kindle edition

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Pro-abortion group- media turned to us for leadership

1984 interview with NARAL director Karen Mulhauser:

“… It really became clear, through our membership growth, through our budget, through the kinds of information that we were able to distribute, and through our organizing on the local level, that we were the biggest single issue group, so, more and more, media and legislators and other groups were turning to us for leadership. … We were able to play that role…”

Suzanne Staggenborg The Pro-Choice Movement: Organization and Activism In the Abortion Conflict (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) 84

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Men supported abortion most strongly

Demographer Judith Blake look at abortion and public opinion from 1960 to 1970 she determined that:

Abortion was not most supported by the “less advantaged and by women.”

“Legalized abortion is supported most strongly by the non-Catholic, male, well-educated “establishment.”

Judith Blake “Abortion and Public Opinion: The 1960 – 1970 Decade” 1971. Cited in Eva R Rubin, editor, The Abortion Controversy: A Documentary History (Westport, Connecticut: 1994) 107′

Elsewhere, Blake said:

“Upper class men have much to gain and very little to lose by an easing of legal restrictions against abortion.”

Edward Manier, William Thomas Liu, WD Solomon Abortion: New Direction for Policy Studies (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997) 7

Compiled in Brian E Fisher Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women (Frisco, Texas: Online for Life, 2013) Kindle edition

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Postabortion father; ‘If only we’d kept the baby’

A man who at 17 convinced his girlfriend to have an abortion looks back on the experience 24 years later:

“It’s amazing to think that back then we thought our lives would be ruined with the birth of a baby. 24 years later, we both know that our lives would’ve been significantly better if we had kept the child. 24 years of pain and suffering could’ve been avoided if we had just dealt with a few months of disappointing friends and family. The true friends and family would have eventually come around and supported us – we know that now. We could have had our daughter, who would be graduating college by now. We would not have gone through the depression and struggles that we did.

If we only kept the baby…”

“Reflections from a Father” priestsforlife.org in Brian E Fisher Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women (Frisco, Texas: Online for Life, 2013) Kindle edition

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26 week old baby born alive during an abortion

A nurse gave the following testimony:

“I, too, witnessed a similar incident during one very long night shift in the emergency room. We were summoned to get a “pregnant woman in distress” out of her car. The first to arrive was a paramedic, who reported hearing a little cry as she approached. She tried to give the baby rescue breaths, but a new infant can’t tolerate more than a couple minutes without oxygen before permanent brain damage occurs, as you know. By the time we got the infant inside, she was already cyanotic [blue] and, with the parents’ urging, the ER doc pronounced her [dead] almost immediately.

The focus turned to stabilizing the mom who was bleeding profusely. I felt so badly for her and tried to comfort. She was quite cold to my attempts, which, of course, raised suspicions.

When mom’s “primary physician” arrived on scene, we all realized what was going on – that it was, in fact, an abortion.

26 weeks
26 weeks

This was a perfectly formed 26-week baby. Someone laid her on a table. As soon as I saw her I nearly fell apart. The image of that beautiful, fully formed, perfect little infant haunts me to this day. I’ve seen it in my sleep. I’ve seen it every time I see a pregnant woman.”

Jill Stanek “Biohazard bags & buckets” WorldNet Daily 9-8-2004

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Clinic worker describes horrors of late term abortion up to 40 weeks

A nurse in a Florida abortion clinic gave the following testimony:

“I saw a lot of babies born alive … Dr. X said that was a side effect of a medication. They always said to leave the baby alone, and they would stop breathing … Two hours was the longest I saw a baby live … One girl was 26-27 weeks …they put the babies in red biohazard bags when they were still moving … tied the bag up … put them in a biohazard box. The biohazard medical service would pick boxes up Monday and Thursday. Dr..X would insert the medication and send the women home. They were told to come back the next day.

There was one incident where the woman had the baby while she was waiting at the door for the clinic to open. She got there at 7 a.m. The clinic opened at 8 a.m. She said the baby was born alive. The baby was now dead, and she was holding the baby in a bag. She was bleeding.

I was in the room when Dr. X gave the digoxin to stop that baby’s heartbeat beforehand. [Digoxin is a medication inserted by needle through a mother’s abdomen into a baby’s heart to cause cardiac arrest.]

Well, he didn’t have an ultrasound machine that day. He inserted the needle blindly. He said he’d been doing it so many years, he knew the location. But he didn’t actually know if he hit the heart.

I know this nurse – Bridget. She was working there when the new doctor held a baby under water in a bucket when she told him the baby was alive. That baby was between 25-26 weeks. Bridget left two months ago because of that.

I left because I got tired of everything going on and the fact Dr. X would coach women into saying they were going to kill themselves if they didn’t abort. Then he said he had a legal right to do it past viability. He did them all the way to 40 weeks.”

Jill Stanek “Biohazard bags & buckets” WorldNet Daily 9-8-2004

 

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Abortion and child abuse

Brian E Fisher cited the following quote and statistics in his book Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women:

Lawrence Lader, co-founder of the pro-abortion group NARAL predicted that abortion would make the world a better place when he said:

“The impact of the abortion revolution may be to too vast to assess immediately. It should usher in an era when every child will be wanted, loved, and properly cared for; when the incidence of infanticides and battered children should be sharply reduced.”

Larry Lader “the Abortion Revolution” The Humanist May/June 1973

*  In reality, Child abuse increased by 400% between 1973 and 1990

Michael J New “Abortion Promises Unfulfilled” The Public Discourse, The Witherspoon Institute, January 23, 2013

* Child abuse injuries involving hospitalization rose 4.9% between 1997 and 2009

Crystal Phend “Child Abuse Injuries on the Rise” ABC.go.com, October 1, 2012

Babies are still abandoned. Abortion has not diminished child abuse or infanticide, only added a new type of infanticide to the scene.

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NARAL campaign fizzles out

[In 1985], NARAL, the National Abortion Rights Action League [now NARAL Pro-Choice America], kicked off a new campaign with lots of media hype! It was titled “Silent No More” and they announced that 40,000 women that had abortions were going to give an account of their abortions and the circumstances.

I wonder why the media was so quiet about the fact that fewer than 70 letters were ever presented. (Only 39 of which were from persons who had abortions.)

From the book Dick Hafer I Know We’re a Throwaway Society… But This Is Ridiculous (Glenn Dale, Maryland: FreedomLight Publications, 1989) 96-97, citing as sources:

Dudley Clendinen “Abortion Choice Defended in Capital” The New York Times May 22, 1985 I 18

A.L.L. About Issues, September 1985, 43

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