An inside look at anti-choice strategy

Kay Steiger has an interesting piece up at RH Reality Check about her day spent at an anti-choice conference. She gives us an inside look into the strategy discussions of the anti-choice movement, including a possible new tactic using defining personhood beginning a fertilization.

On Friday, dozens of pro-life activists gathered at the Personhood Conference in Washington, D.C. On Thursday, the 36th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, they had marched with the tens of thousands of anti-choice activists, but today these activists were talking about personhood, a new plan of attack for the anti-choice movement. These activists are frustrated and tired of incrementalist approaches to abortion. “It’s not working,” announced Shaun Kenney of the American Life League. “It’s failing.”
The Personhood Conference, organized by the American Life League, enlisted speakers from a variety of segments of the pro-life movement, including a rising star, Kristi Burton. Burton is a 21-year-old woman who spearheaded the campaign for a state constitutional amendment in Colorado that sought to define life as beginning at fertilization. Burton says the Colorado personhood movement projects a “positive message,” unites pro-lifers, and doesn’t personally attack pro-choice activists.

Check out the full piece here.