What do abortion restrictions have to do with climate change? According to believers of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, it's all connected.
Journalist and author Sian Norris joins Non-toxic to talk about her new book, Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global. We talk about everything from the fascistic obsession with the laws of nature to Vladimir Putin's pro-natalist vision for Russia to why far-right tradwives love to post photos of their homesteads on Instagram. If you've ever wondered why the far-right is so fixated on making more white babies in the era of the climate crisis, this episode is for you. And stay tuned for next week, when we talk to a pair of antinatalists who are advocating for all of humanity do the complete opposite: cease to exist.
Links
A superclip of Tucker Carlson "just asking questions" about the Great Replacement.
A timeline of Repblican congressman Steve King's fliration with the Great Replacement theory
Conservative darling Victor Orban's remarks at CPAC Dallas 2022
Far-right provacteur Lauren Southern's anti-feminist highlight reel
The Center for Reproductive Rights' map of the the world’s abortion laws
A recent Gallup poll on what Americans think about abortion
Guest bio
Sean Norris is a journalist and author of Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global, published in 2023 by Verso. Her reporting can be found in The Observer, The Guardian, The Times, The Eye, and The New Statesman, among others.
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