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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501724671
035 _a(DE-B1597)515488
035 _a(OCoLC)1091649593
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072 7 _aSOC046000
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082 0 4 _a363.46/0973
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMason, Carol
_eautore
245 1 0 _aKilling for Life :
_bThe Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-Life Politics /
_cCarol Mason.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2002
300 _a1 online resource (264 p.) :
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_t2. From Protest to Retribution --
_t3. Protection from and for the Fetal Citizen --
_t4. The Gideon Story --
_t5. Making Time for America's Armageddon --
_t6. Narrating Enemies --
_tConclusion --
_tNotes --
_tSelected Bibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aHow can those who seek to protect the "right to life" defend assassination in the name of saving lives? Carol Mason investigates this seeming paradox by examining pro-life literature—both archival material and writings from the front lines of the conflict. Her analysis reveals the apocalyptic thread that is the ideological link between established anti-abortion organizations and the more shadowy pro-life terrorists who subject clinic workers to anthrax scares, bombs, and bullets.The portrayal of abortion as "America's Armageddon" began in the 1960s. In the 1970s, Mason says, Christian politics and the post-Vietnam paramilitary culture popularized the idea that legal abortion is a harbinger of apocalypse. By the 1990s, Mason asserts, even the movement's mainstream had taken up the call, narrating abortion as an apocalyptic battle between so-called Christian and anti-Christian forces. "Pro-life violence of the 1990s signaled a move away from protest and toward retribution," she writes. "Pro-life retribution is seen as a way to restore the order of God. In this light, the phenomenon of killing for 'life' is revealed not as an oxymoron, but as a logical consistency and a political manifestation of religious retribution."Mason's scrutiny of primary sources (direct mail, internal memoranda, personal letters, underground manuals, and pro-life films, magazines, and novels) draws attention to elements of pro-life millennialism. Killing for Life is a powerful indictment of pro-life ideology as a coherent, mass-produced narrative that does not merely condone violence, but anticipates it as part of "God's plan."
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aAbortion.
650 0 _aCivil disobedience.
650 0 _aMillennialism
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPolitical violence
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPolitics, Practical.
650 0 _aPro-life movement
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPropaganda.
650 0 _aRadicalism
_zUnited States.
650 4 _aReligious Studies.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Abortion & Birth Control.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501724671
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501724671
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