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The fall of #RoeVsWade is a shocking setback to women’s rights – but it also does not come out of the blue: it is the result of decades of anti-abortion strategising by the US Christian right, which has very strong links to some Snr UK Tory MPs.

theconversation.com/roe-v-wade-the…
The 1980s saw the rise of the religious right as a political force in the US. They established law schools with the express intention of reversing legal secularism & promoting a vision of law rooted in their version of Christian theology.

link.springer.com/article/10.152…
By training Christian lawyers, they could challenge issues they objected to through the courts.

Amy Coney Barrett, a Supreme Court justice nominated by Donald Trump, has been a speaker at a fellowship programme aimed at promoting Christian law.

washingtonpost.com/politics/coney…
This decades-long strategy of seeking influence in the US political & legal system has culminated with the end of Roe: now each state has the power to decide the extent to which abortion is permissible, including many which will severely reduce access or ban it. Britain is next.
In Britain, the 1967 Abortion Act, which outlines when abortion is permitted, remains in place. But there have been repeated attempts in parliament to restrict abortion, which started shortly after the Act was passed.

brill.com/view/journals/…
Although access to abortion in Britain has not been seriously threatened for decades, this is due to constant vigilance & campaigning by pro-choice activists. remember, Northern Ireland - excluded from the 1967 Abortion Act - only saw the liberalisation of abortion law in 2019.
There are anti-abortion organisations, funders & politicians around the world that seek to learn from each other in their overall mission to ban abortion.

While the US religious right is a significant force in this, they are not the only major players.

theguardian.com/world/2022/may…
The fall of Roe is a significant boost to the global anti-abortion movement. It will encourage them to pursue additional routes to power & influence in other nations & pan-national organisations, including the UK where many current mainly Tory MPs are explicitly against abortion.
UK voters need to know that the dirty money & opaquely-funded organisations (like the Heritage Foundation) behind the anti-abortion, climate-change-denying, Orbán-supporting #neofascists in the USA, are also right behind many senior UK @Conservatives.

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