U.S. anti-abortion ideology on the move: Mobile crisis pregnancy centers as unruly,unmappable, and ungovernable |
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Affiliation: | 1. Chellis House 56 Hillcrest Rd, Middlebury, VT, 05753, USA;2. Middlebury College, 14 Old Chapel Road, Middlebury, VT, 05753, USA;1. The Department of Geography, Downing Place, University of Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK;2. Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK |
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Abstract: | Crisis pregnancy centers—anti-abortion non-profits that masquerade as abortion clinics—are increasingly using mobile units to expand their geographical and political reach. In this article, the first to consider mobile crisis pregnancy centers, we examine the methodological, epistemological, and political challenges that mobile units raise for scholars and activists alike. The mobile nature of on-the-go crisis pregnancy centers makes them difficult to both map and regulate. Taking these challenges as a starting point, we reflect on what we learned from our failure to map mobile crisis pregnancy centers. We first outline how mobile crisis pregnancy centers—the epitome of the wild, ungovernable, and unruly—call into question the glorification of these concepts in feminist and queer studies. We also suggest that mobile crisis pregnancy centers trouble the possibility of thinking feminist and political geography separately, as well as the positive affects associated with mobility in discussions of reproductive mobilities. We close with a qualitative analysis of mobile crisis pregnancy centers’ online presence, examining the particular concerns that their mobility raises in terms of race, class, and place. |
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Keywords: | Abortion Anti-Abortion Mobile crisis pregnancy centers Queer studies Feminist geography Political geography Mobility Race Rural Urban Class Unmappable |
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