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The anti-abortion campaigner held a sign reading "Here to talk, if you want" outside a clinic in Bournemouth on two days in March 2023.

Anti-abortion leaders became obsessed with Planned Parenthood in the early 1980s, as the organization emerged as both a major provider of reproductive health services and a political powerhouse.

Anti-abortion absolutists despised Planned Parenthood because its affiliates offered services beyond abortion, but that limited the appeal of the defunding campaign for a movement trying to build enough political support to overturn Roe.

Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood’s national office has a track record of raising prodigious amounts of money when conservative states threaten the organization, and under Planned Parenthood’s bylaws, most of that money goes to the very kind of political and legal work that infuriates anti-abortion leaders.

So what’s in that for the anti-abortion movement?