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THE HIJACKING OF THE WOMEN’S

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The sexual revolution secretly hijacked the feminist women’s movement behind the scenes...Abortion was not originally part of the 1960’s women’s movement. How did the women’s movement, which fought for equal opportunity for women

in education and the workplace, and the sexual revolution, which reduced

women to sex objects, become united?

These two movements were connected under false pretenses pushed by pro-

abortion men: that women needed abortion in order to survive in the workplace

and advance economically and through academia.

Because women had been subjected to injustices - such as being fired while

pregnant - they became prime targets of pro-abortion men, who needed and

wanted the sexual revolution and the idea of “free sex” to thrive and become the

norm.

The fact is: women before the deadly Roe vs. Wade decision were not

asking for legalized abortion. Instead, that call came from primarily white, well-

to-do pro-abortion men.

Meet the woman who reveals the whole story...Cover Image: WikiCommons

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In her groundbreaking book Subverted: How I Helped

the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement,

Sue Ellen Browder documents for the first time how

the women’s movement was hijacked by the sexual

revolution - in her own life and in the life of the entire

country.

Trained at the University of Missouri School of

Journalism to be an investigative journalist, Browder

unwittingly betrayed her true calling and became a

propagandist for sexual liberation. As a long-time

freelance writer for Cosmopolitan magazine, she wrote

pieces meant to soft-sell unmarried sex, contraception, and abortion as the

woman’s path to personal fulfillment.

She did not realize until much later how propagandists higher than herself

were influencing her thinking and her personal choices as they subverted the

women’s movement.

Sue Ellen Browder

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Here is the who’s who in the hijacking of the women’s

movement by the sexual revolution:

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Helen Gurley Brown is credited with helping to spur the sexual revolution.

Brown authored the best selling book, Sex and the Single Girl. In 1965, she

took over as editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and sought to turn the

homemaker magazine into a female version of Playboy magazine, according

to its founder Hugh Hefner.1

Brown’s philosophy was:

“hard work and sex without the kids will set you free.” 2

“If you entrusted yourself to Helen’s lifestyle teachings (as many young women

did and still do), you’d soon come to believe the way for a smart woman to be

free and to succeed in her career and her life was to (1) work hard; (2) take

the Pill or use some other contraceptive; and (3) if the contraceptive failed, get

an abortion.”3

But not all feminists initially agreed with Brown’s view of sexualizing women.

Helen Gurley Brown

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Betty Friedan has been dubbed the “mother of the women’s movement,” and is known for authoring a popular book in 1963, The Feminine Mystique, which influenced the modern-day feminist movement in America.4

This first edition of her book never mentioned abortion or contraception – instead, she fought for women’s freedom in the public square, the workforce, and in academia. Betty herself had actually been fired for being pregnant in the 1940’s.

Friedan was a different kind of feminist from Helen Gurley Brown of Cosmo magazine, and she was critical of Brown’s view of women. Betty once called Cosmo, “quite obscene and horrible” and “an immature teen-age-level sexual fantasy.”5

Betty Friedan

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By 1966, only a few short years after publishing The Feminine Mystique, Betty

Friedan founded the National Organization for Women (NOW). In 1967,

Friedan boasted that NOW had become the first national organization to

endorse the legalization of abortion.6

What changed?

A man named Larry Lader “began to convince [Friedan] that

[abortion] was something that womenneeded to be free.”

Behind the scenes, Lader convinced Friedan she needed to insert abortion

into her “Bill of Rights,” a comprehensive guide for women she was working on

to submit to Congress.

When Betty Friedan introduced the abortion resolution to her NOW members

on a Saturday night behind closed doors, only fifty-seven people voted in favor

- just over half of the total attending the conference.7

On the following Monday morning, Friedan came out with a press release to

the newspapers, claiming she spoke for millions of working women all over

America to make abortion a part of women’s rights.

National Organization for Women

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The press bought the story, and the next day the Washington Post ran the

headline: “NOW embraces the sexual revolution of the 20th century.” From

this point on in the American media’s mind the sexual revolution and the

women’s movement were joined together – because of abortion.

While Friedan falsely claimed she “started the Women’s Movement,”8 the early

feminist leaders like Susan B. Anthony referred to abortion as “child murder”9

and viewed it as a means of exploiting both women and children.

They believed true feminism is pro-motherhood, pro-woman, and pro-

child.

Over time, Friedan saw problems with the male-created feminism she

helped promote, and noted that her movement’s failure “was our blind spot

about the family.”10 In promoting her book, Second Stage, Friedan called for

her movement to “stop overemphasizing abortion rights and reaffirm the

importance of family.”11

But the damage was done.

And the pro-abortion feminism

started by Friedan has brought

nothing but destruction to

women - and the family.

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Larry Lader was a journalist who became an abortion-rights crusader. Betty

Friedan nicknamed Lader the “Father of the Abortion Rights Movement.”12

Lader befriended Planned Parenthood founder Margaret

Sanger after spending time with the eugenics leader and

writing a biography about her. Lader called himself “her

disciple,” referring to Sanger, and was the key player in

hijacking the women’s movement through his influence

over Betty Friedan.

Lader was obsessed with abortion, once noting, “The

complete legalization of abortion is the one just and inevitable answer to the

quest for feminine freedom. All other solutions are compromises.”

Sue Ellen Browder comments on Lader:

“[He] said that he wanted the sexual revolution to succeed. And, he said ‘to mess with abortion would turn all of sexual morality upside down.’ He also was

a population planner, he thought that we needed to eliminate poor children in

other countries, if we were going to have freedom in America.”

Larry Lader’s book, simply entitled “Abortion,” was cited several times in

the 1973 Supreme Court case, Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in

America.

Larry Lader

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Bernard Nathanson is well-known as a converted abortionist who renounced

his actions of spreading lies to manipulate the American public into accepting

abortion.

Nathanson is credited for uncovering how pro-abortion men hijacked the women’s

movement for abortion.

Sue Ellen Browder explains:

“We would never had known it was Lader who at last persuaded Betty to insert abortion into NOW’s package of “women’s rights” if it weren’t for the

written testimony of a third party who eyewitnessed events as they unfolded

beneath the scenes. This eye-witness was Bernard “Bernie” Nathanson,

M.D., a director of one of the world’s largest abortion clinics. Nathanson

worked with Lader in the late 1960’s to found NARAL, the first national

organization set up to repeal U.S. abortion laws.” 13

Nathanson became ardently pro-life, renouncing his pro-abortion stance.

Nathanson worked to expose the lies he and other abortion advocates had

spread,revealing how they had manipulated the American public by giving the

media inaccurate statistics on illegal abortion deaths.

Bernard Nathanson

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Both the sexual revolution and the women’s movement shaped the debate that lead to the legalization of abortion in the early 1970’s.The fateful decision of the Roe v. Wade case has lead to over the deaths

of over 60 million children, with millions of women and families wounded or

destroyed.

Browder’s captivating research is published in her book, Subverted: How I helped

the Sexual Revolution hijack the Women’s Movement, which documents how the

push for the legalization of abortion was originated by a handful of influential pro-

abortion men.

To learn more, purchase Sue Ellen Browder’s book Subverted:

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1. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/helen-gurley-brown-death-hefner-jong-remember-361621

2. Sue Ellen Browder video interview with Lila Rose (min 5:30)

3. Browder, Sue Ellen - Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement, Ignatius Press, 2017, page 36.

4. https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/betty-friedan

5. The Improbable First Century of Cosmopolitan Magazine. Google Books

6. https://now.org/about/history/highlights/

7. https://350fem.blogs.brynmawr.edu/1968/11/20/press-release-nows-adoption-of-bill-of-rights/

8. https://www.c-span.org/video/?9556-1/decides-political-action-prochoice

9. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/mother/early.shtml

10. Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement. Google Books

11. https://www.csmonitor.com/1981/1028/102801.html

12. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/10/AR2006051002319.html

13. Browder, pg 51.

Footnotes

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