https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Anti-Abortion en https://politicalresearch.org/2025/09/25/its-never-just-about-gender-gender-and-authoritarianism-pra-analyzes-trump-20s-first-100 In this second of a two-part series on analyzing Trump 2.0’s first 100 days in office, we share insights from PRA’s researchers about how MAGA weaponizes gender to entrench authoritarianism. Thu, 25 Sep 2025 05:31:32 EDT Political Research Associates 4e3e970b-c997-4ecd-815d-ff2ef117fa33 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/04/02/courts-clinics 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. Wed, 02 Apr 2025 01:51:27 EDT Chancie Calliham a820147b-8628-4fe1-a628-b2824a8ddba2 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/03/27/trad-values-meets-tech 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. Thu, 27 Mar 2025 02:40:03 EDT Gaby Del Valle 6088c71f-95ed-4da5-9b82-2b362f85efe4 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/02/12/stacking-courts-against-mifepristone 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. Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:05:41 EST Zane McNeill 1f4222f3-61af-4618-b6cb-e1cb3b37b95a https://politicalresearch.org/2024/05/16/putins-year-family In her commentary, Irina Smolevskaya scrutinizes Putin’s appeal to “traditional family values” as a reversal of U.S. Cold War containment rhetoric appealing to domestic and transnational conservatives alike. Thu, 16 May 2024 04:02:32 EDT Irina Smolevskaya dbfe0864-6d28-4079-81b2-538007dde12f https://politicalresearch.org/2024/02/14/countering-ideology-violent-care Abortion defenders and activists showed Angela Hume the inherent contradiction in the antiabortion movement: it purports to protect women while actively harming them. Wed, 14 Feb 2024 01:44:29 EST Angela Hume c321187a-77da-4276-a079-cc85c02d026b https://politicalresearch.org/2023/10/26/101-abortion-abolitionists A militant wing of the anti-abortion movement has long looked to the 19th century anti-slavery abolitionists for inspiration and guidance, organizing under the banner of “abortion abolitionists” Thu, 26 Oct 2023 12:24:29 EDT Hannah Silver, Cloee Cooper d96f1bce-ab0f-4392-93fe-3c908d060a66 https://politicalresearch.org/2023/09/14/abortion-abolitionists-cloee-cooper Listen to this episode of Inform Your Resistance, where Cloee Cooper breaks down who the abortion abolitionists are, what drives them, and how their tactics overlap with those of other far-right movements. Thu, 14 Sep 2023 01:38:31 EDT Political Research Associates fe099924-75a5-45a7-9861-6a0bd3873467 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/04/25/its-battle-life-antiabortion-movement-willing-expose-its-enemies-death-and-theres-old The recent Texas lawsuit that sought to overturn the FDA’s approval of mifepristone presents itself—in the typical pattern of antiabortion politics—as a form of protection. The suit alleges that the FDA failed to properly assess the safety risks of the… Tue, 25 Apr 2023 05:40:18 EDT Beatrice Marovich 7cbb95c9-aa94-4c7c-9edd-98fb40b28889 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/04/17/catholic-groups-leading-mifepristone-ban-are-part-century-long-tradition-who-see-it In 1995, following a spate of lethal violence against abortion providers across the United States, Catholic bioethicist Dr. G. Kevin Donovan predicted that the abortion movement faced an imminent moral and logistical dilemma. The anti-abortion movement’s extremist efforts to “seize… Mon, 17 Apr 2023 03:45:05 EDT Lauren Barbato 2d0d95f6-340a-4498-a59b-867ca650e1e2 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/04/10/christian-nationalist-judge-strikes-down-fda-approved-abortion-pill-brazenly-ideological Mifepristone is safer than aspirin. Much safer . The FDA approved the drug for early abortions in 2000, after fully —and carefully—vetting it over four-and-a-half years (more than triple the time such approvals typically take). On Friday, in a federal… Mon, 10 Apr 2023 01:57:28 EDT Andrew L. Seidel bce0f23c-1343-48b0-a954-a17e76ad2b13 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/02/20/lila-rose-and-right-resurrect-malicious-child-predator-myth-putting-lgbtq-people-even In January the far-right website Townhall began publishing a four-part series on a so-called “Suburban LGBTQ Pedophile Ring.” The series, written by Townhall fact-checker Mia Cathell , claims to reveal “disturbing new details” about adoptive parents William and Zachary Zulock… Mon, 20 Feb 2023 01:12:47 EST R.L. Stollar 81bc25c1-b131-4628-9654-089169e17167 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/02/13/who-could-possibly-take-issue-human-dignity-beware-trojan-horses Upon the recent death of the conservative British historian Paul Johnson, the right-wing journal Public Discourse praised Johnson as the “historian of human dignity.” Another recent piece in the Washington Post by Justin Dyer—executive director of the conservative Civitas Institute… Mon, 13 Feb 2023 02:48:58 EST Peter Schwartz ad4f02c0-36f0-4a1b-8a47-12c957abe0fc https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/19/new-anti-trans-strategies-floated-family-research-councils-pray-vote-stand-summit As anyone with access to the internet is likely aware, former college football star Hershel Walker is running for US Senate in Georgia as a pro-Trump Republican. Walker, who has four children —three of whom he appears to have just… Wed, 19 Oct 2022 09:10:21 EDT Heron Greenesmith, Asia Korkmaz 92bf9060-b4bc-491c-84ac-4a4852926882 https://politicalresearch.org/2022/08/03/sovereignty-strategy The Christian Right is using a new tactic to deny the international right to abortion: sovereignty. Wed, 03 Aug 2022 02:35:09 EDT Lynn M. Morgan 811f7a47-2602-4f34-bf34-87dd8b58d2c3 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/08/02/what-turn-century-anti-abortion-and-contraception-crusader-reveals-about-gop-efforts-ban While his name may not be familiar to most Americans, for 40 years, between 1873 and 1915, the mutton chopped and cherubic faced Anthony Comstock was one of the more powerful and feared people in American society. The most famous… Tue, 02 Aug 2022 01:10:19 EDT Steven K. Green 2db100a8-06a0-4e86-b620-4028e320170a https://religiondispatches.org/2022/07/20/odd-comments-michigan-football-coach-reveal-who-anti-abortion-christians-think-theyre This past Sunday, at a “Right to Life dinner and auction” in a Detroit suburb, University of Michigan head football coach and keynote speaker Jim Harbaugh told his audience that women must “ have the courage to let the unborn… Wed, 20 Jul 2022 05:13:24 EDT Karen E. Park dff711cb-afa3-420c-b445-32ceb5c09afa https://politicalresearch.org/2022/07/12/transformation-toward-peoples-democracy 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. Tue, 12 Jul 2022 01:42:52 EDT Harini Rajagopalan 024d5e4d-0894-48fd-82a0-ec59831a0677 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/30/progressive-christians-dont-look-bible-abortion-rights-arguments-womens-autonomy-not In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade , many Christians have gone to their Bibles. Some in joy as they celebrate. Some for comfort as they worry about what comes next. Others for ammunition as… Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:04:56 EDT Rhiannon Graybill, Jill Hicks-Keeton 4eac21e8-1bbb-4883-be94-6cea47aadc64 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/29/problems-pregnant-people-increase-catholic-bishops-claim-theyre-heroes-ending-abortion Now that Roe and Casey have been overturned, the roles of the institutional Roman Catholic Church and of most of the Catholic Supreme Court justices are transparent. Their ‘victory’ was the fruit of long, persistent work that many Catholics, myself… Wed, 29 Jun 2022 04:21:34 EDT Mary Hunt df21a91b-7295-4c4a-a01f-bb78f46c7970 https://politicalresearch.org/2022/06/29/torchbearers-different-future The U.S. Supreme Court decided that for now, bodily autonomy is not a protected freedom. We are faced with an urgent call to action. Wed, 29 Jun 2022 04:14:12 EDT Political Research Associates 4fb69a1b-ea9e-40c3-9ba1-481bde486899 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/29/racialization-meets-purity-culture-abortion-criminalization-cases-confirm-its-always Overturning Roe v. Wade was inevitable in this last decade. In March 2015, the state of Indiana sentenced 33-year-old Asian American woman, Purvi Patel to 20 years in prison on charges of feticide — an act that causes the death… Wed, 29 Jun 2022 01:57:34 EDT Mihee Kim-Kort 5274c2e5-b454-41d7-bce0-dd614433b30a https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/27/embryo-men-decades-conspiracy-christian-nationalism-and-fear-led-us-end-roe-v-wade This morning as we again awaken to the realization that American women have lost their bodily autonomy , that five individuals can decide that States’ rights can’t control guns, but that they do have the power to control women’s bodies… Mon, 27 Jun 2022 02:18:42 EDT Carmen Celestini 4decb173-6927-4006-b0fb-cf236d4a5747 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/24/citing-jewish-law-florida-synagogue-challenges-abortion-ban-heres-problem-religious Days before the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey , a Florida synagogue filed a lawsuit challenging Florida’s abortion ban on the grounds that it violates Jews’ religious freedom. Halakhah, or Jewish law, the… Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:34:36 EDT Rebecca Epstein-Levi 411e5ad3-73b6-47f9-a11d-e464586d55ac https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/24/catholic-bishops-punish-dissent-rosemary-radford-ruethers-life-and-legacy-show-way Theologians will tell you that Catholic theology almost always favors both/and scenarios, yet the U.S. Catholic bishops ’ crusade against abortion results in nothing but either/or positions. Take, for instance, the bishops’ newly favored form of public humiliation for Catholic… Tue, 24 May 2022 10:54:35 EDT Lauren Barbato beff2fd7-80f0-46df-ba8f-147fd786149c