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A Pennsylvania pro-life advocate recently debunked several claims made in a recent NPR interview that linked pro-lifers with right-wing extremism, calling the viewpoint a “pro-abortion fairy tale which bears no resemblance to reality.”
Maria Gallagher, executive director of Pennsylvania Pro-Life, analyzed NPR’s interview with author Carol Mason, who discussed her upcoming book, “From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary.” In an article published by National Right to Life, Gallagher called the interview “incredibly biased,” adding that it highlights “the bizarre case that the pro-life movement — a movement driven largely by mothers and grandmothers — is extremist.”
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According to Gallagher, Mason’s first claim in the interview was that the pro-life movement sees “the rule of law as something to be ignored.” Gallagher pointed out that National Right to Life and its state branches have always followed the law when protesting abortion and will continue to abide by the law in the future.
“It is because they take the law so seriously that they expend so much time and effort to get dangerous anti-life laws changed through peaceful grassroots activism,” Gallagher wrote.
She then analyzed another of Mason’s claims, which argued that the pro-life movement is linked to white nationalism. Gallagher responded by sharing stories of several individuals of different races and backgrounds she has encountered during her years in pro-life ministry.
“Not one of them could be confused with a white nationalist,” Gallagher wrote. “As National Right to Life President Carol Tobias indicated on the social media platform X, the book belongs in the fiction section.”
