![]() ![]() Gamergate, for example, revealed how easy it is for male supremacists and white supremacists to target common enemies together, and how quickly men who hate women can become radicalized. Myriad activists and journalists have chronicled the short line between hatred of gender and sexual minorities and white nationalism. Not surprisingly, there is often overlap and collaboration between the so-called pro-life movement-typically made up of religious conservatives who oppose a person’s right to safe, legal, and affordable abortion-and racist far-right movements. Dear, who repeated talking points from a discredited anti-choice smear campaign, had a history of attacking reproductive health facilities and railing against abortions. Dear shot up a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood, killing three people and injuring several others. The late ’90s saw even more “pro-life” attacks, including murders and assaults against abortion providers, as did the 2000s. In those two years, two doctors who provided abortions, a clinic escort, and two receptionists at a clinic were murdered by far-right anti-abortionists. Between 19, there was a spate of violent anti-choice attacks resulting in several murders. That goal hinges on the subjugation and elimination of marginalized communities, the sexual domination of white women, and the reproductive control of women of color.Īnti-choice extremists are responsible for numerous violent attacks on abortion providers and abortion clinics. Threats of violence against abortion clinics have nearly doubled since 2017, and trespassing incidents have more than tripled, according to data compiled by the National Abortion Federation.įrom pipe bombs targeting Democratic leaders and the media, to the fatal shooting of two Black grandparents at a Kentucky grocery store, and the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue, fascists are escalating the use of violence to further their goal of creating a white ethnostate. Under the Trump administration, a surge in white nationalist organizing and policies has meant an uptick in threats against abortion providers and clinics, creating an even more unsafe environment for patients as Republican lawmakers further erode their rights. President Trump addressed the March for Life rally in January. March For Life is a decades old radical anti-choice movement and protest popular among Republicans. ![]() “March for life never has effect until White Nationalists join ,” the Discord user “Commander Davis” said in the Traditionalist Worker Party chatroom, a now disbanded neo-Nazi group. Leaked conversations between white supremacist groups using the Discord messaging site show users discussing recruiting members based on their opposition to abortion rights. The traditional right wing in the United States tries to distance itself from fascists, but far-right groups are weaponizing traditionalism and “normie optics” to infiltrate anti-choice platforms to recruit and organize young white men.Īttacks on reproductive rights are nothing new, but fascist groups’ infiltration of anti-choice groups and recruiting around anti-choice organizing in their genocidal agenda is an escalation. ![]() Those on the far right who have long discussed and acted upon their desire to dominate women’s sexual and reproductive rights are pushing that agenda into the political mainstream with help from the anti-choice movement. ![]()
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