Despite Livia Tossici-Bolt’s conviction, the US is not finished with making abortion a UK culture war issue | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

I I couldn’t sleep on the other night, because I made a deadly mistake in reading about American policy immediately before bed, specifically the executive order Call to remove From “an inappropriate or divisive ideology or anti -America” ​​from Smithsonian museums. If the American policy is a movie, then I say that we are somewhere between reading loudly from the book that calls for demons as a joke and the final blood bath.

If the date of rewriting JD Vance is not evil, the news that the US State Department will be “will be” “Monitor“The issue of the abortion area of ​​women in the United Kingdom (why everything they say always seems very creeping?) They are” anxious “, apparently,” about freedom of expression in the United Kingdom. “The case is the case of Levia Tresissi-which was putting a mark” here to speak “outside the abortion clinic in Bournemouth and skin. Do you condemn this morning? From the breach of the insulating area. I spent it It was funded By the UK’s coalition branch (ADF), a tilt organization with Links to the White HouseThat has Her expenses increased And activities in this late country. He was appointed as a hatred group by the Center for Southern Poverty in the United States.

Fmese, this is not the first time that the United States has called for the legislation of the buffer zone in the UK’s abortion clinic. In a speech at the Munich Security Conference in February, Fanz made the wrong claim People who live in safe arrival areas have been sent messages by the Scottish government who warn them against praying inside their homes. These comments were dangerous in a rowing state, and they were condemned in this way, while this last intervention Bombed “Unjustified intervention” by the former UK Supreme Court judge, Lord Soman. There were reports This week, the United States intended to use these false concerns about freedom of expression as a financial lever in commercial negotiations, but the Minister of Business denied this. However, it is part of a disturbing mood music regarding reproductive rights in the United Kingdom.

“The US State Department claims that its concerns about the insulating areas about freedom of expression, but abortion is not the issue of freedom of expression,” Sian Norris, author of the book “Under Siege: Air Right attack on reproductive rights.” “People can be hostile to abortion wherever they are, but they cannot use their discourse to harm others and suppress human rights for women.” Norris is concerned, but he was not surprised by ADF and 40 days of life – a The movement to end the abortion-which is led by Bournemouth branch by Trescey Bolt.

Why is a great interest in the United States and pressure groups? I do not believe for a moment that the likes of Vans really raises abortion clinics in the United Kingdom. Do they think, like Farage, that there is a kind of extremist right opinion in the United Kingdom waiting for exploitation? I am not sure that there is an appetite for the war of abortion culture here: While I always hesitate to summon concepts such as a national character, I do not think that UK citizens generally agree to individuals with medical treatment. It is not polite or decent, and what people do with their bodies greatly consider their own actions. As the most recent The survey shows social positionsSupport abortion at the highest level ever. This does not mean that the question has been settled: the work must do so by the criminal cancellation mode Back to the table as soon as possible.

Maybe all of this does not matter. Vans and others know that these comments will play well with right -wing Christians at home. After he greatly won the war in the United States by depriving millions of women there with basic human rights with To reply from ROE V WadeThey are still not satisfied. UK buffer zones are a useful issue to add to the main cultural war of the United States government – the idea that it liberates people from “waking up” and restoring freedom of expression. Despite the fact that, as Lord Sombeon pointed out, one of the biggest threats to freedom of expression at the present time is the United States, this makes it look as if the defender of the peaceful protest at home and abroad.

It is an effective t at that. “Well, so we literally control our national museums at the present time, but see how this poor woman, who simply held a registration outside the abortion clinic!” Satellite leaks indicate that “there is no free trade without freedom of expression” that adds to this impression that is deliberately made from the United States as a global guardian of freedom of expression. Somehow, it really does not matter whether the UK’s buffer zone legislation is part of commercial negotiations: it is sufficient that the United States has guaranteed it and its will. Whether the condemnation of Thismi-Polt will demand other attempts to intervene, it still must be seen, but the UK’s growing AFD interest is terrifying. This battle is not over.

There is no doubt that there are those who believe my fears are hysterical, but people said the same when feminists were publicly afraid of Roe V Wade, and women’s bodies were a battle for a long time so that excessive maintenance was a natural response. If you will forgive me to return to the analogy of my horror movie: When you live in a haunted house, you start seeing the threat at every corner.

As for our government – will you defend any imagined human rights attack for British women, and publicly condemn the shameful use of our money to try to influence our laws? I do not hold my breath.

• Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett is a guardian of a guardian

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