MAINE, USA — On a recent Friday morning, John Andrade stood outside the Planned Parenthood in Portland. Next to him was a sign that juxtaposed an X-ray of a man in shackles with an X-ray of a fetus, reading: “The world dehumanizes people in order to justify their destruction.”

Andrade has been preaching against abortion for six years, and in that time has increasingly adopted a more radical position, one in which proponents argue abortion must be abolished the way slavery was.

“There’s no other subgroup of the population who it is completely legal and permissible to kill,” Andrade said in an interview with The Maine Monitor .

In August, Andrade was sued by the state for violating the Maine Civil Rights Act, for allegedly interfering with the safe delivery of health services by making

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