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How UK anti-abortion activists use American tactics to shock and shame women

50 years after the 1967 Abortion Act, the anti-abortion movement is consolidating – with transatlantic support.

By Phoebe Braithwaite
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Anti-abortion activists at the 2017 March for Life in Washington DC.

Anti-abortion activists at the 2017 'March for Life' in Washington DC. Photo: Dimitrios Manis/Zuma Press/PA Images. All rights reserved.

Anti-abortion activists gathered outside the UK Houses of Parliament on 27 October to protest 50 years since the passing into law of the UK’s 1967 Abortion Act. Nina Naidu* was working nearby, and went to take a closer look.

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