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  • Bodies Under Siege

  • How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global
  • By: Sian Norris
  • Narrated by: Naomi Madelin
  • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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By: Sian Norris
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Summary

Think today's anti-abortion ideas are rooted in religious prohibitions or arguments about where life begins? Wrong: today's anti-abortion movements is largely financed and planned by far-right extremists. Many of them are avowedly fascist and white supremacist, afraid of a "great replacement" of the world's white population by other races, who are working hard to reshape governments and policies across Europe, North America, and around the world. Much of this far-right organizing and funding network, however, has been overlooked by today's feminist and left movements.

As investigative journalist Sian Norris uncovers here, it is through attacking abortion rights that fascist ideas from the dark web, incel chat boards, and fringe organizations comes to enter mainstream debate—and to then shape governmental policy across Europe, from authoritarian regimes like Hungary's to liberal democracies like Britain. As Norris goes undercover at anti-abortion activist meetings, and pieces together the money trail linking American think tanks to far-right fascist groups, she maps out the pipeline by which fascism has become respectable across the Global North by taking away women's reproductive rights and autonomy.

©2023 Sian Norris (P)2023 Tantor

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Absolutely fantastic book

Really insightful and powerful, it’s thought provoking but also a bit scary to realise that women’s autonomy is the latest battleground for the far-right. The narrator unfortunately mispronounces a few parts and there are a few bits that seem to have been missed in the audio edit, but it doesn’t spoil the experience.

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