Roe Rockenings: Emboldened and Unashamed: The Anti-Abortion Playbook Goes Global

Emboldened and Unashamed: The Anti-Abortion Playbook Goes Global

The anti-abortion movement is no longer creeping quietly.
It is louder, bolder, and utterly emboldened.

In the United States, Republicans have stopped pretending. They are attacking medication abortion head-on — not with science, but with propaganda dressed as research.

Their latest weapon? A widely circulated and deeply flawed “study” from the right-wing Ethics and Public Policy Center.
This is the study: Stop Harming Women (EPPC, 2025)

It claims that abortion pills are dangerous. In reality, it’s riddled with misleading data and junk methodology: counting normal bleeding, mental health visits and even precautionary hospital trips as “serious adverse events.”

Peer-reviewed science says otherwise. But the truth isn’t the point.
This is about building a case for bans — and they don’t care how dishonest that case has to be.

Trump’s hand-picked FDA chief Marty Makary is already laying the groundwork. He claims there are “no plans” to pull mifepristone — yet also insists they “can’t ignore new data.”
In other words: the fix is in.

The UK: Ready and Willing to Copy

And the emboldenment doesn’t stop at the US border.

UK anti-abortion groups, stung by defeats over buffer zones and legalisation victories, have seized on this American “study” with desperation and glee.

They’ve imported the narrative wholesale — feeding it into MPs’ inboxes, policy briefings and media campaigns.
It’s being spun as evidence of “urgent safety concerns,” even though experts have dismissed it as ideological garbage.

Meanwhile, US extremist groups like 40 Days for Life and Alliance Defending Freedom are expanding operations here, emboldening local activists to push harder.

And with prosecutions of women for self-managed abortions rising in Britain, they smell opportunity.
They are no longer cautious.
They are no longer subtle.
They are emboldened — and they think this is their moment.

Not a Slow Burn. A Blitz.

In the United States, anti-abortion activists are intensifying their efforts:

In Indiana, lawmakers passed Senate Bill 442, which mandates that students in sex education classes view a high-definition ultrasound video — the so-called Baby Olivia video — to push anti-abortion narratives directly into classrooms.
In the same bill, Indiana Republicans also removed the requirement to teach consent, stripping out one of the most important protections for young people in sex education.
In Texas, extremists introduced Senate Bill 1976, which would require mandatory wastewater testing to detect hormones linked to birth control and abortion pills — a dystopian attempt to criminalise private healthcare decisions.
Meanwhile, in Florida, the state has funnelled $25 million in taxpayer funds to fake clinics — so-called “crisis pregnancy centres” — which are notorious for spreading disinformation about abortion. These centres failed to achieve the political goals DeSantis hoped for, but remain heavily funded.

This is Emboldened Extremism. Call It What It Is.

Fake science.
Fake compassion.
Fake concern for safety.

The Republican Party and their allies abroad — now including UK anti-abortion groups — are not sneaking anymore.
They are emboldened.
They are moving fast and without shame.

If we let them, this movement will use every crack and loophole to push abortion back into the shadows — not just in America, but here too.

No, that pathetic “study” won’t kill abortion pills.
But if ignored, it will strangle access, bit by bit.

This is no longer a slow creep. This is a global blitz.

→ Name them.
→ Call them out.
→ Meet them head-on — before they win by default.