NARAL, Abortion Rights Group, Founded
Now known as NARAL Pro Choice America, NARAL was founded as the National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws, and later became the National Abortion Rights Action League.
It was founded on this day at the first National Conference on Reform of Abortion Laws in Chicago. The conference was co-sponsored by 21 organizations and 350 individuals.
Go to the NARAL web site: http://www.naral.org/
Learn about abortion in America before Roe: Linda Greenhouse and Riva Siegel, Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling (2010)
Watch the president of NARAL debate abortion clinic protection laws: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWl16941pw0
Follow a timeline on abortion rights: http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/history_abortion.html
The “Sixties” really began in the mid-1950s and ended in the early 1970s. Read: Christopher B. Strain, The Long Sixties: America, 1955-1973 (2016)