Religious conservatives' opposition to abortion is so prevalent in our political sphere that it might seem like a given. But Rachel Wagner of Ithaca College puts forward that this wasn't always the case.
In today's episode of Interactions, in light of the abortion hearing in Mississippi, we hear from Wagner and her Canopy Forum article "#Abortion: The Religious Right Meets TikTok." In her article, she traces the history of the religious right in America, and how key figures in the movement strategically rallied opposition to abortion in order to cover up their real grievance--the racial integration of public schools.
Ever since, Wagner argues, the religious right has organized around certainty: things like biblical liberalism, Constitutional originalism, and the insistence that life must begin at conception.
The social media platform TikTok could offer a way forward, Wagner writes. The fluidity of the platform resists the kind of rigidity that fundamentalism demands.
Listen now.
Read the original article on Canopy Forum.
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