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Who is the Alliance Defending Freedom?

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Published December 14, 2023 at 8:11 AM EST
A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion. (Charlie Riedel/AP)
A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion. (Charlie Riedel/AP)

The Alliance Defending Freedom is the group that overturned Roe vs. Wade. Now, they’re behind challenges to the use of mifepristone, a commonly used abortion pill.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with David Kirkpatrick, staff writer at the New Yorker, about the group.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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