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Welcome To The Beginning Of The End Of The Anti-Abortion Movement

Welcome To The Beginning Of The End Of The Anti-Abortion Movement
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Deputy Editor, HuffPost Personal

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The anti-choice movement has worked hard to convince people that it cares about women and what they want. Its (public) rhetoric went from calling women murderers to telling them they “deserve better” than abortion. The movement swears its protestors are kindly grandmothers, not terrifying bullies. It has even started calling itself a group full of feminists!

But no amount of re-branding can hide the true goal of the anti-choicers: forcing women to carry pregnancies they don’t want, by any means. And the truth is that trying to forcibly stop women from getting abortions is a last-resort option for a stuck movement.

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