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

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.