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Personhood Group Compares Rival Anti-Choice Activists To ISIS

American Right to Life, an anti-choice “personhood” group(link is external) that rejects the larger anti-choice movement’s strategy of chipping away at abortion rights through incremental measures(link is external), has taken the movement’s internal warfare to a new level, starting a social media campaign(link is external) comparing incrementalist anti-choice groups to ISIS.

In the first(link is external) of a promised series of social media share images, American Right to Life compares “ fetal anesthesia(link is external)” measures — a tactic that the anti-choice movement has been using to make certain abortions more expensive and harder to obtain, while working to move public opinion to its side — to “urging ISIS to anesthetize before a beheading”: