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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      133 months ago

      I assume anyone who says ‘both sides!’ to anything involving Trump butter both sides of their toast and throw it on the floor before eating it, just to prove it always lands butter side down.

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      well both sides have worked together to make sure there is no other choices presented such as the fact that both corporate parties rig the board so other parties never get a chance to voice their vision for the US to the voters

      so yes it is both sides or nothing in the US and some of us are not even allowed to vote