Available in August … for just under $100!
A professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Kentucky has a book coming out which claims being actively pro-life is tied to “white supremacist, Christian nationalist and authoritarian movements.”
Carol Mason’s book “From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary” is a “scary read” according to The Indypendent, as it makes use of the author’s “three decades of attendance at rightwing events” and study of writings by “anti-abortion conservatives.”
Mason (pictured), who’s affiliated with the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies and researches “critical studies of whiteness” and “theories of gender and sexuality,” says “fear of demographic change” is a significant factor among the “white antis.”
White nationalists make “wild projections” that the Christian West is “facing extinction,” the professor says, which lead to efforts to restrict the immigration of Muslims and others from the “global south.”
For The Indypendent’s Eleanor Bader, one of the “most chilling” parts of Mason’s book details Russia’s “deployment of apocalyptic temporality” which has been “boosting” (the racist) pro-life sentiment in that country.
Such posits “demographic decline brought about by abortion will usher in a larger Muslim population,” which, paradoxically, pro-life Russians view as “a threat and […] something to emulate.”
Mason also notes this Russian phenomenon is “cheered on” by the World Congress of Families, a group founded by American and Russian conservatives and designated a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Concerns about unwanted “population shifts” are just part of what groups around the world akin to the WCF use to draw in “acolytes,” the book claims. These organizations also warn gender ideologues will turn kids into “mentally ill, bodily mutilated, and sexually dysfunctional tragedies.”
Mason says President Trump and MAGA have embraced this multifaceted “abortion abolitionist” sentiment, which also includes “opposing vaccines,” “banning queer-themed books and texts addressing race, racism, gender and sexuality,” “opposing queer rights and trans acceptance,” “slashing spending on public education,” and “restricting immigration and upping deportations.”
In previous articles, Mason has expressed concerns about how police officers are “radicalized” into becoming pro-life “anti-government agents,” and claimed the “paramilitary warriors, white supremacists, and Christian militants” who rioted on January 6 at the U.S. Capitol are like those who used violence to protest abortion decades prior.
“From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary” is available in August for $95. Its description reads in part “From Cold War conspiracism and apocalyptic fundamentalism to anti-statist terrorism, Tea Party populism, and MAGA insurrection, opposing abortion has come to imperil democracy worldwide.”
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IMAGE CAPTION & CREDIT: Carol Mason/University of Kentucky