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Who is behind Britain’s top anti-abortion group?
Despite using female spokespeople for its campaigns against clinic buffer zones, ADF UK’s board consists entirely of men, with 80 per cent living outside Britain and most funding from its US parent, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
SCANT REGARD FOR THE LAW: MSI Reproductive Choices Clinic in Brixton, south London. ADF UK backs legal cases against new “no protest” zones around abortion clinics
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ONE of Britain’s leading anti-abortion groups, whose activity was boosted by US Vice President JD Vance, has an all-male board, most of whom do not live in Britain.
ADF UK was founded in 2015 as a conservative Christian advocacy group, with a strong anti-abortion focus. This relative newcomer has grown in influence, thanks to its growing resources: the latest accounts, covering 2023, show its budget has expanded so it now has £1 million a year to spend.
It is the British arm of the US’s Alliance Defending Freedom, a significant player in the US Republican right. The US Alliance Defending Freedom has a seat on the “advisory board” of “Project 2025,” the coalition of big hitters on the US right who created a radical plan of government cuts and politicisation seen as a blueprint for Trump’s presidency.
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