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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Isabel Choat in New York

A tale of two conferences: women against women as ‘poison of patriarchy’ returns and abortion fight intensifies

A woman holds up a book while another woman screams into it. They are surrounded by women with pro-choice placards.
Anti-abortion and pro-choice demonstrators clash in Florida on International Women’s Day, March 2025. Photograph: ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy Live News

In a meeting room on the 27th floor of a swish Manhattan hotel, Denise Mountenay is telling the audience that the right to abortion is “Nazi thinking.” Mountenay regrets her own abortions, and says she has been called by God to spread the word that she and other women “were lied to, deceived, pressured into making the most horrible choice: to choose death instead of life”.

She goes on to list reasons why abortion is “not a safe procedure. [That’s what] they want woman to think – that is a lie.”

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