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La Suprema Corte en Estados Unidos anuló fallo histórico que protege el derecho
al aborto 6/24/2022 Rolling Stones: "Los evangélicos conservadores y los
católicos habían tendido a evitar el lío de la política y rara vez estaban de
acuerdo entre sí. Pero cuando los tribunales obligaron a los cristianos blancos
a ir a la escuela con niños negros, eso cambió y, a fines de la década de 1970,
nació la derecha cristiana. Sin embargo, había un problema: preservar la
segregación ya no era un tema unificador efectivo. Y así, Paul Weyrich, Falwell
y otros fundadores de la derecha cristiana —en una historia meticulosamente
documentada por Randall Balmer— aprovecharon el aborto."
How the anti-abortion movement shaped campaign finance law and paved the way for
Trump 6/22/2022 19th: "I think there was a feeling, eventually, that the
various things that made Trump unappealing could be assets in the sense that
there was a hope among folks in the anti-abortion movement, and I think to some
extent other conservative grassroots movements, that if Trump did not have
allies in Washington, D.C., and did not have a lot of support among voters, and
didn’t have a lot of the kind of advantages that establishment politicians had
because his approval ratings were always low, that it might make him even more
beholden to conservative movements. Part of what Bopp and his allies wanted was
a Republican Party that would answer to them rather than the kind of model they
thought had been in place before, which was essentially powerful candidates
dictating to movements. Trump was more willing to cater to the anti-abortion
movement than arguably any Republican president before him."
Abortion restrictions are also voter suppression 5/20/2022 Alternet: "Surprisingly,
voter ID laws can also make voting difficult for women across incomes and race
because around 80 percent of women change their names when they get married.
Many states require original documentation of every name change to get an ID, so
women must provide evidence of marriages and divorces. This can be costly and
logistically impossible depending on the state and the number of name changes.
According to a Brennan Center for Justice survey, 33 percent of women could lack
the documentation."
CPAC Head Suggests Abortion Ban Will Solve ‘Great Replacement’ 5/19/2022 Daily
Beast: "Matt Schlapp, the head of the influential Conservative Political Action
Conference (CPAC), has suggested the racist “great replacement theory” could be
solved by banning abortion. The confidant of former President Donald Trump said
that a “first step” in handling immigration issues was to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“If you say there is a population problem in a country, but you’re killing
millions of your own people every year through legalized abortion every year, if
that were to be reduced, some of that problem is solved,” Schlapp said at the
conference in Hungary, according to Vice News."
Republicans want to ban abortion and starve immigrant babies because of the
Great Replacement Theory 5/18/2022 Independent: "For white nationalists,
individual human beings have little value in themselves. They’re merely pawns or
chits in a sweeping drama of racial conflict. They believe that white supremacy
must triumph, and in pursuit of that goal they are happy to hijack uteruses,
harm infants, and murder people in stores and houses of worship. This isn’t just
the rhetoric of isolated extremists; it’s increasingly the open ideology of
right-wing pundits and Republican politicians. When a mainstream political party
openly advocates for starving babies, the future looks bleak."
Replacement theory has antiabortion roots 5/17/2022 Repro
Rights: "Replacement theory has been making headlines recently as a far-right
conspiracy spread by white supremacists who feel there is a plot to displace
them in America. While it may seem new to some, this has historically been part
of the most intolerant part of the antiabortion movement. With this theory, its
proponents argue that immigrant masses that reproduce at a more frequent rate
will disempower people who don’t procreate as much—which they believe are white
Christians."
Great Replacement Theory and the abortion debate 5/15/2022 Daily
Kos: "African Americans make up 12% of America. And they have 38% of all
abortions in the United States. So cynical me, if I was a Republican white
supremacist asshole, I wouldn’t want ANY abortion restrictions."
The link between the anti-abortion movement & “replacement theory” 5/15/2022 MSNBC: "One
phrase buried in a footnote in Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft opinion has
drawn significant criticism: “domestic supply of infants.” Dorothy Roberts,
Director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society, says that phrase—taken
from a 2008 CDC report—represents the “system of coercion” inherent in the
adoption industry. “It’s treating children to be adopted as if they’re
commodities…a supply and demand market,” she tells Maria Teresa Kumar. In that
market, white children are most desired by white families, which bleeds into the
racist “Great Replacement” theory. “Underlying anti abortion rhetoric and action
is the idea that white women should be having more babies to build up the white
nation,” Roberts adds. “Anti-abortion is a movement to dominate people.”"
Supremacy movements unite over abortion restriction, though for different
reasons 5/12/2022 NPR: "CAROL MASON: There's a far-right idea of
demographic decline or of the great replacement in which Christian civilization
or white people are being outnumbered by non-Christian and nonwhite people. And
this is a fear that has been bubbling up in anti-abortion materials for a long
time."
THE “BROWNING” OF AMERICA: ANTI-ABORTION EFFORTS ARE FUNDAMENTALLY ABOUT A
SHORTAGE OF WHITE BABIES 5/11/2022 Milwaukee Independent: "“For the vast
majority of American history, Christian ministers have spoken with passion and
vigor in favor of slavery, segregation, and White Supremacy. Not even all
Christian abolitionists were convinced of the full humanity of the people they
fought to free. The Ku Klux Klan is a movement deeply rooted in the church, in
both the North and the South.”"
White nationalists are flocking to the US anti-abortion movement 1/24/2022 Guardian: "Explicit
white nationalism, and an emphasis on conscripting white women into
reproduction, is not a fringe element of the anti-choice movement. Associations
between white supremacist groups and anti-abortion forces are robust and
longstanding. In addition to Patriot Front, groups like the white nationalist
Aryan Nations and the neo-Nazi Traditionalist Worker party have also lent
support to the anti-abortion movement. These groups see stopping abortion as
part of a broader project to ensure white hegemony in addition to women’s
subordination. Tim Bishop, of the Aryan Nations, noted that “Lots of our people
join [anti-choice organizations] … It’s part of our Holy War for the pure Aryan
race.” That the growing white nationalist movement would be focused on attacking
women’s rights is maybe to be expected: research has long established that
recruitment to the alt-right happens largely among men with grievances against
feminism, and that misogyny is usually the first form of rightwing
radicalization."
The real history of US anti-abortion politics began in 1662 — and is bound to
the legacy of slavery 12/1/2021 Alternet: "The timing of a movement to
criminalize abortion after the Civil War is not a coincidence. While Black
people were enslaved, the supposed superiority of white people was evident
through the difference in the legal treatment of the two races. However after
the Civil War, Black people were no longer enslaved, and so white supremacy
needed new tools to continue enforcing the racial hierarchy. These efforts were
dependent on a high white birth rate and strong prohibitions against interracial
sex (for white women and Black men at least). The post-Civil War period also
coincided with an increase of “less desirable” immigrants and concerns that
ethnic minorities would take over cities if pure white women did not have enough
children."
How extremist Christian theology is driving the right-wing assault on democracy 10/31/2021 Salon: "As
detailed by Randall Balmer in "Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious
Right," the religious right wasn't initially fueled by opposition to the Roe v.
Wade decision in 1973, but by opposition to a lesser-known decision in 1971,
Green v. Connally, which threatened the tax-exempt status of racially
discriminatory institutions, most famously the evangelical stronghold Bob Jones
University. Anti-abortion activists have long sought not just to bury that past
but to stand it on its head, somehow equating Roe v. Wade with the notorious
Dred Scott decision of 1857 and claiming the moral heritage of abolitionism."
The Birth Dearth with Jane Elliot 7/28/2020 Life with Meli: "Anti-racism
Activist Jane Elliott Speaks on Racism in America and Talks about the book The
Birth Dearth."
The Long History of the Anti-Abortion Movement’s Links to White Supremacists 2/3/2020 The
Nation: "White supremacists were already participants in the anti-abortion
cause, as Loretta Ross wrote in the 1990s. In 1985, the KKK began creating
wanted posters listing personal information for abortion providers (doxing
before the Internet age). Randall Terry, founder of the anti-choice group
Operation Rescue, and John Burt, regional director of the anti-abortion group
Rescue America in the 1990s, adopted this tactic in the 1990s. Terry’s first
wanted poster targeted Dr. David Gunn, who was murdered in 1993 in Pensacola,
Florida. Gunn’s successor, Dr. John Britton, targeted by a Rescue America wanted
poser, was killed in 1994."
Senator Baxley, White Supremacy, and Senate Bill 404 11/7/2019 Planned
Parenthood: "Even in this climate of rampant hate speech coming from elected
officials, State Senator Dennis Baxley stands out for his racist and
anti-abortion rhetoric. He proudly parrots white supremacist “replacement
theory” that has been linked to recent hate crimes including mass shootings.
He’s supporting Senate Bill 404, forced parental consent for abortions, for this
same reason."
Facebook removed doctors' fact-check of false anti-abortion video because Ted
Cruz complained 9/14/2019 Salon: "The videos in question featured Lila
Rose, the founder of the anti-abortion group Live Action. Both videos falsely
claimed that “abortion is never medically necessary.” Three doctors authored a
fact-check for Health Feedback, an organization that seeks to debunk misleading
medical coverage. The fact-check deemed the video “inaccurate,” noting that
“certain medical conditions such as placenta previa and HELLP syndrome can make
abortion a necessary medical procedure in order to prevent the mother’s death.”"
'Throughline' Traces Evangelicals' History On The Abortion Issue 6/20/2019 NPR: "Weyrich
understood that racism - and let's call it what it is - was unlikely to be a
galvanizing issue among grassroots evangelicals."
The Pro-Life Lobby isn’t Righteous. It’s Racist. 5/24/2019 Medium: "Proponents
of these measures tend to rely on the idea that unborn fetuses are legally (and
spiritually) equivalent to human beings, which they predicate on their religious
beliefs. The pro-life lobby in America, however, has a much more insidious
origin, whose motivations may not be as righteous as they’d have you believe. In
fact, the conservative religious movement responsible for the creation of the
pro-life lobby was actually born out of racial resentment, which it continues to
perpetuate throughout its messaging today."
The racist roots of the anti-abortion movement explained 5/17/2019 The
Grio: "Balmer says that evangelical leaders waited a whole six years after Roe
V. Wade to organize against abortion because the movement wasn’t truly about
abortion, but political power. He says a similar desire for political power
today, has allowed them to give a pass to President Donald Trump."
Republicans, Men and Christians Aren't Trying to Ban Abortions. White People Are 5/16/2019 The
Root: "Even before this controversy, during the 2018 midterm elections, Alabama
quietly approved a ballot measure to amend the state constitution to “recognize
and support the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children,
including the right to life” and explicitly state that no citizen had the right
to an abortion. Women supported the amendment. Men supported it. Some Democrats
supported it. In fact, the only places where the measure failed was in Jefferson
County, home of Birmingham, one of the blackest cities in America, and a band of
counties that stretch across the state where white people are minorities. They
call it the “Black Belt.”"
Alabama’s Abortion Bill Is Great News For White Supremacists 5/15/2019 Huff
Post: "Many white supremacists subscribe to the bogus conspiracy theory that
white people are going extinct due to immigration and falling birthrates among
white women. To them, the strict abortion bill that passed the Alabama Senate on
Tuesday - which aims to challenge a woman’s constitutional right to choose to
end a pregnancy - represents a huge victory in their effort to propagate the
“white race.”"
The Pro-Life Movement was Born from Racism 5/8/2019 The Salt
Collective: "Angered by the government’s interference in ‘christian’ affairs, 2
white men in particular – 1st conservative activist Paul Weyrich and later
Christian Fundamentalist Jerry Falwell – worked to create a movement to prevent
the government from violating evangelicals’ “religious freedom” to discriminate
against whoever from enrolling in their schools while still benefiting from
federal tax breaks. The only problem was that by the 70s nobody was going to
publicly plant their flag on a hill of racism and discrimination, so white
evangelicals didn’t coalesce en masse. They needed another, more digestible
issue to “rally the base.” And so the single-issue, pro-life movement was born.
Mind you, it wasn’t until SIX YEARS after Roe v. Wade that abortion was even
mentioned as a political issue by christians."
The racist origins of the 'pro-life' abortion movement they never talk about 7/10/2018 Daily
Kos: "No wonder they hated Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood.
She published a feminist magazine in 1914 that advocated for reproductive
freedom—exactly what racist white men didn’t want embraced by women. The smears
and attacks against her continue today as conservatives try to paint her as the
racist. The truth is that she was a proponent of eugenics, but was staunchly
against its use for racist means."
White Supremacy and the Pro-Life Movement: Slanted Subtweets During #ScaryStats 1/26/2018 Reproaction: "The
“pro-life” movement loves jumping on repro hashtags, but Human Coalition
leadership specifically had a few clumsy contributions to the tweetstorm that
got me thinking about how their movement has tried – and in some cases, made
headway – in coopting social justice and human rights language while furthering
misogynist and white supremacist ideals. Their expression of these sentiments
isn’t always direct, but sometimes is masked behind supposed allyship or
solidarity with the struggles of people of color."
Texas Abortion Providers Receive Threats from Rabid Anti-Abortionists Who Spy on
Them 12/27/2016 Alternet
The Real Origins of the Religious Right 5/27/2014 Politico: "Some of these
anti- Roe crusaders even went so far as to call themselves “new abolitionists,”
invoking their antebellum predecessors who had fought to eradicate slavery. But
the abortion myth quickly collapses under historical scrutiny. In fact, it
wasn’t until 1979—a full six years after Roe—that evangelical leaders, at the
behest of conservative activist Paul Weyrich, seized on abortion not for moral
reasons, but as a rallying-cry to deny President Jimmy Carter a second term.
Why? Because the anti-abortion crusade was more palatable than the religious
right’s real motive: protecting segregated schools."
The Racist Roots of the Pro-Life Movement 10/2/2012 The Belle Jar: "This
fear, that people of colour would out-baby us, is where we find the actual
origins of the pro-life movement. It didn’t come out of the idea that abortion
was a sin, or the dogma of be fruitful and multiply, but rather the panicked
notion that white people might not run the world anymore. This racism still
exists in the pro-life movement, although usually in more subtle ways. I’ve
heard of white women requesting abortions and being asked, pleadingly, by
medical professionals, if they know how wanted white babies are."
4 States Where Right-Wingers Are Promoting Shocking Measures to Keep Women
Barefoot and Pregnant 2/18/2012 Alternet: "But attention-grabbing as the
anti-birth control crusade may be, it is not the only regressive, anti-woman,
anti-science battle being waged in this country. In fact, right-wing politicians
are attempting to roll back reproductive rights across the nation. One year ago,
we reported on a number of state-level reproductive rights battles. Today we
check in with many of those states (plus some new ones), only to find that the
war on women has not let up at all and abortion bans being introduced to
legislatures are getting more scary, more intrusive, more punitive and in some
cases, gaining more traction. This brutal combined assault on family planning
and abortion rights, if it continues to be successful, will hit disadvantaged
women the hardest, and result in an environment of compulsory pregnancy for many
of the nation's women."
How white nationalists aligned themselves with the antiabortion movement 8/27/2010 WaPo: "King
is only the most notorious of the politicians who have recently justified their
opposition to abortion by linking it to their anti-immigration politics.
Conservative lawmakers and right-wing vigilantes alike have adopted a seemingly
new language for describing their antiabortion stance: the white nationalist
discourse of the “great replacement,” a conspiracy theory that holds that
nonwhite immigrants are demographically “replacing” whites throughout the West."
Hard right 7/24/2005 uggabugga: "The clear message is that there should not
be abortions even for those pregnancies caused by rape. That's not anywhere
close to a mainstream view. How much does Roberts' wife believe it this stuff?
How much does Roberts himself? Hard to say, but it looks like they are inclined
to want to prevent abortion in all circumstances."
Ex-Ranger pleads guilty in abortion-bombing plot 2/13/2004 Miami Herald
High Priority To Anti-Abortion Anthrax Mail 11/9/2001 Women's e-News
Mary Zeigler, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ziegler
www.sistersong.net SisterSong, Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, Atlanta, national reach
The Color of Choice: White Supremacy and Reproductive Justice, Loretta J.
Ross, SisterSong
www.malesupremacism.org
Prof Carol Mason, Gender & Women's Studies, gws.as.uky.edu/users/cama239
www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/05/17/racist-great-replacement-conspiracy-theory-explained
Comstock Act of 1873 - "The Comstock Act of 1873 made it illegal to send “obscene, lewd or lascivious,” “immoral,” or “indecent” publications through the mail. The law also made it a misdemeanor for anyone to sell, give away, or possess an obscene book, pamphlet, picture, drawing, or advertisement. The breadth of the legislation included writings or instruments pertaining to contraception and abortion, even if written by a physician."
The Founding Fathers, Deism, and Christianity - Encyclopedia Britannica
When Abortion Was a Crime, Leslie Reagan, online text
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