Once-fringe activists are fighting to be the voice of the anti-abortion movement

On a chilly March morning, Jason Storms stood on a patch of lawn across from a women’s health clinic in Greenville, S.C. It’s one of three clinics in that state that perform abortions. Dozens of other anti-abortion rights activists joined him, from Wisconsin, Florida and Mississippi.

Storms had convened the group there for a conference to highlight what he felt to be the failures of the anti-abortion movement since Roe v. Wade was overturned. He said there should be no excuse for abortions still happening in a deep red, Bible Belt state like South Carolina.