WASHINGTON—Pro-life protests outside the U.S. Supreme Court are learning the political Left’s distinctive protest style from a new activist group.
Lauren Handy, an anarcho-mutualist, is the director of activism for Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU), a Left-wing pro-life protest group founded in October 2021.
PAAU includes anarchists, communists, and animal rights activists that oppose abortion.
Since the leak of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion draft that suggests Roe v. Wade might be overturned, her group has often counter-protested outside the court in support of the pro-life cause.
Left-wing pro-life protester Lauren Handy, the director of activism with Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, protests outside the US Supreme Court on June 15, 2022 (Jackson Elliott/The Epoch Times)
Handy herself has been a pro-life activist since 2013, she said. She dropped out of college to devote her life to fighting abortion….