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Anti-Abortion

The A movement that emerged in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade, a decision which prevented states from outlawing abortion under most circumstances. Learn more movement as it exists in the early 2020s emerged in the aftermath of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court which found sufficient protection in the Constitution to prevent U.S. States from outlawing abortion under most circumstances. The A movement that emerged in the 1970s encompassing a wide swath of conservative Catholicism and Protestant evangelicalism. Learn more , which had its earliest origins fighting against school desegregation, eventually adopted an anti-abortion platform as one of its primary policy issues, using it to build a broad coalition between evangelical conservatives and Catholic traditionalists. 

Also known as anti-choice (among feminists, progressives, and others in favor of preserving or expanding access to reproductive health care) and pro-life (by anti-abortion advocates and more broadly on the Christian Right). 

Deep Dive

Political Research Associates
Conservative groups are reshaping judicial outcomes in their favor using forum shopping and dark money, as seen in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA case on access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
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Religion Dispatches
The following is part of RD and PRA’s special coverage of the Pray Vote Stand Summit. All posts can be found here. - eds 9/15/2022 Morning First Baptist Atlanta is huge—a sprawling campus of parking…
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Public Eye
The U.S. Right’s Pronatalist Coalition
Pronatalism has produced a tenuous coalition of traditional conservatives, abortion opponents, and White nationalists working together with tech moguls, futurists, libertarians, and libertines, united in a common cause of promoting more births.
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Political Research Associates
Anti-abortion Politics in the Americas
The Christian Right is using a new tactic to deny the international right to abortion: sovereignty.
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Public Eye
How the Anti-Gender Far Right is Reshaping Texas
In Texas, state Attorney General Ken Paxton is testing the powers of the AG to enact wide-ranging right-wing policies, including anti-trans and anti-abortion legislation, that extends beyond state lines.
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Political Research Associates
Author Q&A with Suzanne Pharr
A Q&A with author and activist Suzanne Pharr on her book Transformation, and her experience fighting the Right and her hopes for the future.
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