Sophie Bjork is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University and author of The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family.
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"In the era of Dobbs and intense political polarization, this magnificent book is testament to the power of deep, respectful listening. Bjork is exquisitely attuned to the moral ambivalence expressed by young adults as they grapple with the messy, shifting ethics of abortion amid uncertainty about their country's--and our planet's--future."--Lynn Morgan, author of Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos "Sophie Bjork's penetrating research shows the contradictory life politics informing contemporary views of abortion. Debates over reproductive rights have significantly shaped American ideas of human sexuality, environmentalism, and Christian identity. A timely and powerful work."--Kathryn Lofton, Yale University "A timely, original and valuable book based on the author's important research with young adults living in red-state Tennessee- Gen Z in particular- on their "life ethics" regarding the increasingly fraught issue of abortion in America in the post-Dobbs era, bringing it into conversation with their views on climate change....Bjork-James' lively and accessible writing never resorts to longstanding binaries. She brings a welcome and fresh interpretation of the complex and often surprising ways that young people in a deep red state are grappling with one of the central issues of our time."--Faye Ginsburg, author of Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community