Two of the highest-profile anti-trans extremists in the UK have done what we always knew they would do: they’re standing alongside the religious right to restrict women’s reproductive freedom.
The Times reports that Sharron Davies and the former EHRC chair Kishwer Falkner are demanding a ban on “pills by post” as part of a wider push to restrict women’s reproductive rights. Other proposed amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill include a mandatory police investigation into any girl under 16 who accesses a legal abortion and the creation of the first new abortion offence in 100 years.
Davies has previously spread anti-abortion misinformation, claiming that in the UK we have “made it legal for healthy babies to be terminated up to the day before they’re due.” Since 1967 the limit in the UK has been 24 weeks unless there are serious fetal issues or risks to the mother.
Not all anti-trans activists are focusing on removing women’s reproductive freedom, however. Some of them are going after immigration instead. Again, just like we knew they would.