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...said in her speech that the pro-choice movement originated in the 1970s with two men who were the founders of NARAL Pro-Choice America, not from Betty N. Friedan and Gloria N. Steinem, the founders of the National Organization for Women. She argued that Bernard Nathanson and Larry Lader convinced Friedan and Steinmen to take up their pro-choice cause. Jeremiah D. Braunlin—who recently graduated from the Harvard Extension School—said he thought that Foster’s definition of the word “feminist” was interesting. “When...
DIED. Lawrence Lader, 86, journalist turned abortion-rights activist, whom feminist Betty Friedan called the "father" of the movement; in New York City. He became fascinated by the issue while writing about birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger, and his landmark 1966 book, Abortion, was cited by the Supreme Court in its 1973 ruling to legalize abortion. He co-founded the pro-choice group now known as NARAL; lobbied for the manufacture of the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 in the U.S.; and targeted abortion opponents in lawsuits, including an unsuccessful challenge of the IRS for giving tax exemptions...
...kids who wake up this way is becoming increasingly diverse. The stereotypical cutter is a girl in her young teens suffering from discord at home and doing poorly at school, and there is some truth to that clich. "Girls have a more conflicted relationship with their bodies," says Wendy Lader, clinical director of Self Abuse Finally Ends, a treatment program in Naperville, Ill. "They go after it and hurt it when they're angry." While such traumas as sexual abuse don't always precede cutting, they often do appear to be risk factors...
...served ably, and she has been a respected teacher and scholar and I am very excited about prospect of [her] leadership,” said co-moderator of Saturday’s luncheon, former ambassador and HLS grad Philip Lader...
...Lucas, none of this is lucky. He witnessed the two planes crashing into the World Trade Center, his "favorite buildings," and saw people jumping to their deaths. And the reason he is freshly outfitted and eating out is that he and his parents Julio Rosario and Joan Lader have been living a vagabond existence since Sept. 11. They have moved four times since they were evacuated from their Tribeca apartment two blocks north of ground zero. They have relied on the kindness of friends, who have found them vacant apartments or taken them in. Lucas has been doubly displaced--from...