The Anti-Abortion Vanguard

Abortion opponents are at the forefront of a wider effort to punish poor women and attack social services.


What do abortion opponents really oppose?

Hint: it’s not just abortion. The same people who are trying, with considerable success, to make abortion unavailable also want to limit women’s ability to avoid pregnancy in the first place. They also pay only lip service, if that, to ameliorating the struggles of low-income mothers and children, even as they claim poverty drives women to have abortions they don’t want.

Let’s look more closely at these two issues.

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