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Tuesday, 30 May

Lawrence Lader, 86

Profession: Abortion rights advocate, founder of the National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws and Abortion Rights Mobilization groups; writer for Look, Reader's Digest, New Republic, and the New Yorker, published several books on abortion; served as a lieutenant in the Army during World War II.

Notable: Called by Betty Friedan the "Father of the Movement" for abortion rights.

Degree: Received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1941.

Death: May 7, 2006 of colon cancer.

From the San Diego Union-Tribune

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