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...The conclusion makes a sustained case for being wary of the reproductive politics of white saviorism in life after Roe v. Wade. Examining the reproductive politics of white saviorism in embryo adoption brings the constitutive work of whiteness, righteousness, and reproduction...

...This chapter considers how white saviorism powerfully links efforts to save embryos with saving the US nation, which takes us inside the everyday routines and rhetoric of Christian adoption. Embryo adoption proponents draw intentionally from the saviorist rhetoric and routines of US adoption...

...This chapter brings us deeper inside the world of embryo adoption to consider the seductions and harms of embryo saviorism as it is wielded by its agents—professionals and participants. The frozen orphan and embryo savior are the most conspicuous figures used in public outreach and political...

... staff members lament when clients come shopping for embryos, their matching practices promote selectivity, to which they respond with consumer solutions. Embryo saviorism creates conditions for embryo shopping and supports strategic efforts to mitigate its effects. Embryo saviorism also inspires...

... reproductive technologies. It situates the US antiabortion movement as the keystone of the reproductive politics that propel the nationalist ambitions of the Christian Right alliance. Finally, the chapter presents an extended consideration of feminist and critical race scholarship on the white savior...

.... This book draws critical attention to the seductions and harms of white saviorism that animate everyday life in embryo adoption and its political ambitions. The Christian Right’s pro-life movement gained traction through embryo adoption in the twenty-first century. This book explains why we ought to be wary...