"Mason has come up with a significant, indeed urgent, treatment of the antiabortion movement. She treats the full integration of antiabortion activists and organizations into the extreme right. Or rather, she demonstrates how antiabortion politics--its ideology, its groups, its figures both well known and less so--have from its beginnings through to January 6 and beyond been components of the leading edge of the most extreme US right wing, including those engaged in violent militia actions."--Lawrence Rosenthal, author of Empire of Resentment: Populism's Toxic Embrace of Nationalism

Antiabortion stories, images, and policies have primed Americans to embrace attitudes and politics once deemed extreme. Abroad, US antiabortion tactics, personnel, and funds have contributed to a global rise of the Right.

From the Clinics to the Capitol is a scholar's story of why and how abortion foes join other militants in waging war against the federal government. Reflecting on her thirty years of analyzing the intersections of race, reproduction, and right-wing movements, Carol Mason examines primary antiabortion sources that influenced political currents of the last fifty years. From Cold War conspiracism and apocalyptic fundamentalism to anti-statist terrorism, Tea Party populism, and MAGA insurrection, opposing abortion has come to imperil democracy worldwide.