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The Guardian - UK
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Alexandra Topping

JD Vance decried as extremist over attack on UK abortion clinic safe zones

JD Vance speaks at the Munich security conference in Germany on Friday
The US vice-president, JD Vance, made his comments at the Munich security conference in Germany on Friday. Photograph: dts News Agency Germany/Rex/Shutterstock

JD Vance has been labelled an “extremist” after he launched a broadside against the UK’s efforts to protect women seeking an abortion.

The US vice-president’s criticisms of UK and Scottish policies on safe access zones around abortion clinics – part of a wide-ranging tirade against Europe on Friday – were derided as inaccurate and misogynistic by a number of groups, politicians and governments.

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