anti-abortion

For decades, the anti-abortion movement has argued that women should be treated as the second victims of abortion because they don’t understand what they are doing, even if abortion itself is intrinsically wrong.

Missouri was just the latest ballot initiative loss for the anti-abortion movement.

These arguments may sound familiar because the anti-abortion movement has made similar claims to explain why abortion victimizes women.

In the 1980s and 1990s, a thriving clinic-blockade movement was damaging the reputation of the anti-abortion movement, especially following an escalation in violence against clinics and providers.

The leaders of prominent anti-abortion groups wanted to establish that they weren’t anti-woman, even as they recognized a tension in framing abortion as murder without condemning women for choosing it.