Re: <nettime> This has little if anything to do with the fetus...

My contribution:

“I believe the current restrictions on abortion, birth control and sex education are all designed to compel white women to have more babies,” said Loretta Ross of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective. “I’m not convinced they want more brown or Black babies,” even though brown and Black women would be disproportionately affected by abortion bans, she said.

Ziegler's forthcoming book from Yale describes close associations of Republicans, Christians and big business; their use of women's bodies and the abortion issue to forge deeper divisions and gain allies in the evangelical camp.

Ziegler shows us a new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that demonstrates how the antiabortion movement remade the Republican Party.

“A timely and expert guide to one of today’s most hot-button political issues.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A sober, knowledgeable scholarly analysis of a timely issue.”—Kirkus Reviews

“[Ziegler’s] argument in [is] that, over the course of decades, the anti-abortion movement laid the groundwork for an insurgent candidate like Trump.”—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times

The modern Republican Party is the party of conservative Christianity and big business—two things so closely identified with the contemporary GOP that we hardly notice the strangeness of the pairing. Legal historian Mary Ziegler traces how the anti-abortion movement helped to forge and later upend this alliance. Beginning with the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Buckley v. Valeo, right‑to‑lifers fought to gain power in the GOP by changing how campaign spending—and the First Amendment—work. The anti-abortion movement helped to revolutionize the rules of money in U.S. politics and persuaded conservative voters to fixate on the federal courts. Ultimately, the campaign finance landscape that abortion foes created fueled the GOP’s embrace of populism and the rise of Donald Trump. Ziegler offers a surprising new view of the slow drift to extremes in American politics—and explains how it had everything to do with the strange intersection of right-to-life politics and campaign spending.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 10:55 PM <patrice@xs4all.nl> wrote:

I forgot to mention the fine analysis by Jessica Glenza in the Guardian which was the trigger for my post:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/24/how-americans-lost-federal-abortion-rights

Roe v Wade:

How Americans lost their right to abortions: a victory for conservatives, 50 years in the making.

Why, and how, a decision opposed by a majority of Americans came about has everything to do with political power, experts say

Cheers, p+2D!

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