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Carter Sherman

‘They hate God’: US anti-abortion activists aim to fight back on 51st Roe anniversary

Anti-abortion demonstrators at the March for Life in Washington on Friday.
Anti-abortion demonstrators at the March for Life in Washington on Friday. Photograph: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/Reuters

Within the subterranean levels of a fancy hotel in downtown Washington, just a few days before the 51st anniversary of Roe v Wade, the anti-abortion movement was trying to mount a comeback.

Kevin Roberts stood on stage in a cavernous ballroom aglow with neon shades of blue, purple and pink. As president of the Heritage Foundation, Roberts leads one of the main thinktanks behind recent conservative attacks on abortion. And he is not happy with how things are going.

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