NOW’s first president, Betty Friedan, that access to abortion was necessary to attain the feminists’ demands of equal opportunity in education and the workplace, as well as equal pay.21 Lader told Friedan, “[Employers d[o] not want to pay for maternity benefits or lose productivity when a mother t[akes] time off to care for a newborn or sick child.”22 In other words, why endure the painstaking fight to change male-oriented institutions? It would be far easier to convince women that, if they are to