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ADF Partners with Farage to Challenge UK Abortion Laws

11/15/2025

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Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a conservative Christian legal group, is expanding its influence in the United Kingdom by partnering with the Reform Party led by Nigel Farage.
ADF aims to frame abortion as a free-speech issue.
Abortion in the United Kingdom is legal up to 24 weeks and treated as healthcare rather than a protected right, with decriminalization advances in England and Wales at risk from ADF's United States–style tactics.

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Story summary

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a conservative Christian legal group, is expanding its influence in the United Kingdom by partnering with the Reform Party led by Nigel Farage.
ADF aims to frame abortion as a free-speech issue.
Abortion in the United Kingdom is legal up to 24 weeks and treated as healthcare rather than a protected right, with decriminalization advances in England and Wales at risk from ADF's United States–style tactics.