UK government honoured anti-abortion figure before editing women's rights statement

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : A spokesperson said: "As the world's largest organisation committed to protecting religious freedom, ADF International were proud to take part in the ministerial.
63% : Sam Brownback, a former governor of Kansas who targeted abortion rights while in office and then became Donald Trump's ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, was given the award during the international ministerial conference for freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) held in London last month.
58% : Nathan Berkeley, communications director of the RFI, said the thinktank worked to advance religious freedom throughout the globe and to defend those of all faiths who were persecuted.
57% : It has now emerged that a number of participants to the conference, which Fiona Bruce, the prime minister's special envoy for religious freedom or belief, was involved in organising, are known for their strong anti-abortion views.
47% : Ambassador Brownback believes that anyone can support FoRB regardless of their position on abortion.
45% : Other participants were from the Religious Freedom Institute (RFI), a rightwing thinktank based in Washington DC, which, alongside the ADF, is pushing for more laws protecting anti-choice medics from performing "procedures in violation of their conscience", from abortion to gender transition surgery.
40% : Founded by leaders of the Christian right, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has long opposed abortion.
40% : Last week, he bemoaned the decisive victory of pro-choice campaigners in a Kansas referendum on abortion, adding: "We fight on defending all life, mother and child, from beginning to end."
37% : "Ambassador Brownback has not tried to connect his support of unborn human life to the issue of religious freedom ...
30% : It currently has eight signatories, including Malta, where abortion is illegal, and the UK.

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