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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Sharp

Kermit Gosnell butchered women and babies for decades. The anti-abortion movement weaponised his horrors

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Robyn Reid was just 15 years old when a doctor fought her down onto a table, ripped off her clothes, tied her arms and legs with restraints and forced her to undergo an abortion against her will.

It was 31 January 1996, and the teenager had spent the last three months hiding her pregnancy from her grandparents as she prepared for a new life raising her baby.

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