Alt-right and abortion

The alt-right and abortion are heavily connected—despite modern-day mainstream left-wing efforts to associate white supremacy as "anti-abortion," the racial component of the alt-right more often leans in favor of legalized abortion.

Richard Spencer and abortion

A foremost leader of the alt-right movement, Richard Bertrand Spencer, who led the violent "Unite the Right" in 2017, has noted the racist nature of abortion as aligning with his own vision of a white ethnostate; the conservative outlet National Review noted:

“	Richard Spencer, the keynote speaker in Charlottesville and the central figure of the alt-right movement, finds abortion useful. He has explained that abortion will help to bring about his vision of an elite, white America: “The people who are having abortions are generally very often Black or Hispanic or from very poor circumstances.” The people whom Spencer wants to reproduce, he says, “are using abortion when you have a situation like Down Syndrome.” It is only “the unintelligent and blacks and Hispanics,” he claims, “who use abortion as birth control.”	”
—Elliot Kaufman, August 22, 2017

In his diatribe, Spencer approvingly cited Lothrop Stoddard, a Klansman and associate of Margaret Sanger:

“	The most popular propaganda line for the pro-life movement is about “black genocide,” how this is “destroying black communities” and indeed is a racist plot by Margaret Sanger and so on. Lothrop Stoddard talked about contraception, not so much abortion but contraception, as a potentially world-changing—for the good—technology, or something that could change the world for the worse. In a way he was absolutely right and I think contraception has to a large degree changed the world for the worse. Intelligent people will engage in family planning because they naturally have long time horizons, they think ahead. They aren’t just going to go run and have sex with someone without a condom and get them pregnant and so on…In a way, contraception has been terribly dysgenic in the sense that it is only the smart people that really use it. Smart people are not using abortion as birth control. Smart people are using abortion when you have a situation like Down Syndrome or you have a situation where the health of the mother is at risk. I would say that it is the unintelligent and blacks and Hispanics who use abortion as birth control, as a kind of late-term birth control.	”
—White supremacist Richard B. Spencer

Spencer has praised faux "conservative" pundit Tomi Lahren for her pro-abortion stance, commenting on AltRight.com, "Why Tomi Lahren Is Right On Abortion."

Following the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization which overturned Roe v. Wade, Spencer whined on Twitter along with Identity Evropa, a Euro-centric white supremacist organization, which lamented, "Where's Margaret Sanger when you need her?"

Alt-right websites attack the pro-life movement

The alt-right writer Alymer Fischer has denounced the key principles of the pro-life movement as incompatible with its white nationalist pursuits:

“	...we on the alt Right have an appreciation of tribalism and identity. We realize that people are not just autonomous individuals. Life gains its meaning through connections to other members of our families, tribes, and nations. Being pro-life flies in the face both of these principles.	”
—Alt-right, white supremacist commentator Alymer Fischer

The revisionist, white supremacist website Occidental Dissent denounces both the pro-life and "pro-choice" movements, viewing abortion strictly as a useful tool for genocide against nonwhite populations. Mainstream neo-Marxist "pro-choicers" claim that such a position constitutes being "anti-abortion" on the grounds despite it embracing abortion albeit in a different form.

External links

• Why the Alt-Right is Pro-Abortion – Patheos
• Why the Alt-Right Loves Abortion – Medium