US anti-abortion activists, including allies of Donald Trump, have a strategy to ban abortion nationwide - one that bypasses Congress and the American people. It’s a plan that hinges on Mr Trump’s re-election in November and the use of a little-known 19th Century law.

At this year’s annual “Pro-Life Summit” on 20 January, guests listened to a keynote speech from Marjorie Dannenfelser, head of Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America, one of the country’s most influential anti-abortion groups.

Ms Dannenfelser is widely credited with convincing Donald Trump to appoint three anti-abortion justices to the Supreme Court during his presidential term. In June 2022, those appointees helped overturn Roe v Wade, rescinding the nationwide right to abortion.

It was a generational victory for the anti-abortion movement. The runway had opened, activists said at the time, to an abortion-free future.

  • @[email protected]
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    163 months ago

    One thing that annoys me is that they try to link reformer Susan B. Anthony to “Right To Life.”

    • DominusOfMegadeus
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      73 months ago

      I think I will start the Ronald Reagan Democratic Socialist anti-capitalism Society

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        23 months ago

        Ray Bradbury was angry with President Obama because there were no space shots in his term. After Bradbury died the Right tried to paint him as a life long Republican stalwart.