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From the Clinics to the Capitol
How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary
How white nationalism and authoritarian populism have taken hold in America under the guise of opposing abortion.
Over the course of the past few decades, the right-wing politics of abortion have centered on the idea that America is a white, Christian nation whose government protects its enemies. While these politics profess these ideals, they also decry that America has been deprived by Black criminality and welfare dependency and preyed upon by a genocidal state-authorized abortion industry.
Drawing on primary sources from antiabortion militants, white supremacists, and pro-life women from the 1970s to the present, right-wing studies scholar Carol Mason shows how white nationalism and authoritarian populism have for decades made inroads in the American imagination under the guise of opposing abortion.
Bringing white poverty and precarity into revealing dialog with right-wing organizing, religion, and race thought, From the Clinics to the Capitol elucidates the disturbing reality of US politics today.
Over the course of the past few decades, the right-wing politics of abortion have centered on the idea that America is a white, Christian nation whose government protects its enemies. While these politics profess these ideals, they also decry that America has been deprived by Black criminality and welfare dependency and preyed upon by a genocidal state-authorized abortion industry.
Drawing on primary sources from antiabortion militants, white supremacists, and pro-life women from the 1970s to the present, right-wing studies scholar Carol Mason shows how white nationalism and authoritarian populism have for decades made inroads in the American imagination under the guise of opposing abortion.
Bringing white poverty and precarity into revealing dialog with right-wing organizing, religion, and race thought, From the Clinics to the Capitol elucidates the disturbing reality of US politics today.
Carol Mason, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky, is author of several books about the rise of the Right since the 1960s and holds the Otis A. Singletary Endowed Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky.
"An extremely important work that sheds light on the current status (and historical evolution) of the antiabortion movement and its relationship to other right-wing movements in ways no other work does. This is brilliant."—Carole Joffe, coauthor of After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion