Praised by the AMA and other medical groups as safe and effective, RU-486 would be a welcome alternative to surgical abortion.. if it were only available in the U.S. In A Private Matter, Lawrence Lader, a leader in the fight for women's rights and for FDA approval of RU486, spotlights the struggle for abortion rights, discusses the recent brutal clinic murders in Pensacola and Boston, and argues that RU-480 could markedly reduce the number of clinical abortions by truly making the termination of a pregnancy a "private matter."
Lader offers an insider's view of the struggle to secure reproductive rights for women: 'I am the only one who has seen the abortion rights movement develop from the beginning.. the National Abortion Rights Action League was founded in my living room. I brought a pregnant woman from
London to New York City to test the ban on RU-486, and we made a perfect copy of [it] in our lab in New York." Compelling, provocative, and daring, this is a firsthand account from the frontlines of a battle yet to be won.
Lawrence Lader is the founding chair of the National Abortion Rights Action League, recipient of the "Feminist of the Year" award from the Feminist Majority Foundation, and author of numerous books, including Politics, Power and the Church, Breeding Ourselves to Death, and Abortion II: Making the Revolution.
255 pages Publication date 30th May, 1996