The Americanization of the UK Anti-Abortion Movement - Liam Hoare - International - The Atlantic
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Since 1967, abortion has been decriminalised under certain circumstances pertaining to the mental and physical wellbeing of the mother and child. Every few years , the British pro-life movement attempts to roll back those laws, particularly in relation to the upper limit on abortions (currently set at 24 weeks). But Darinka Aleksic, campaign coordinator for Abortion Rights, told me that the new, Americanised movement represents something entirely new, a transatlantic cooperation that is transforming how British activists are fighting to overturn abortion rights.