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Katherine Stewart

‘If we can do it, you can do it’: US anti-abortion groups ramp up activities in UK

Protesters at the anti-abortion March for Life march on 3 September 2022 in London.
Protesters at the anti-abortion March for Life march on 3 September 2022 in London. Photograph: Guy Smallman/Getty Images

Anti-abortion groups are stepping up efforts to spread US-style abortion politics to the UK, ramping up spending with the ambition of shaking up political life beyond American borders.

Fresh off their historic victory in bringing about the end of the constitutional right to abortion in the US, these groups are importing familiar tactics, including public protests and demonstrations, anti-abortion counseling centers or so-called “crisis pregnancy centers”, and the cultivation of ties with clerical leaders.

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