There Will Be No Winners in the Supreme Court’s Next Big Abortion Decision
The Supreme Court’s next big abortion decision might barely mention the word abortion.
Anti-abortion campaigner convicted of breaching buffer zone outside UK clinic
Livia Tossici-Bolt had gone on trial over breach in Bournemouth in 2023, in a case that drew concern from US state departmentAn activist whose case
Despite Livia Tossici-Bolt’s conviction, the US is not finished with making abortion a UK culture war issue | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
We should all be worried that the rightwing organisation Alliance Defending Freedom has been increasing its activities in this country
I couldn’t sleep the other night, because I made the fatal mistake of reading about US politics directly before bed, specifically the executive order calling for the removal of “improper, divisive or anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian museums. If US politics were a film, I’d say we’re somewhere in between having read aloud from the book that summons demons as a joke, and the final bloodbath.
If JD Vance rewriting history isn’t sinister enough, then came the news that the US state department will be “monitoring ” a UK woman’s abortion buffer zone case (why does everything they say always sound so creepy?) They are “concerned”, apparently, “about freedom of expression in the United Kingdom”. The case is that of Livia Tossici-Bolt – who held up a sign reading “Here to talk if you want” outside a Bournemouth abortion clinic and was this morning convicted of breaching the buffer zone. Her case was being funded by the UK branch of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a rightwing organisation with links to the White House , which has increased its expenditure and activities in this country of late. It has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center in the US.
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett is a Guardian columnist