Biblical Inerrancy and Control of the Womb as Symbolic Masculinity among Project 2025 Supporters

Opposition to reproductive freedom can be understood as a symbolic masculinity that defends a particular religious tradition as well as the discursive economy of project 2025 Given the current political climate and the rise of evangelical restrictions to other’s freedoms through legislative action, understanding this symbolic masculinity is important both communally and for the academy. Leaning on the scholarly works of Butler, Cassino, Ammerman, and Primary source documents from the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, this paper advances the following claims. Reproductive freedom liberates women from their assumed participation in the “form” of the receptacle. Reproductive Freedom creates a sense of communal and personal crisis for evangelicals who affirm Biblical Inerrancy and Complementarianism. This sub-culture contains materializes the body through the perpetuation of “conversational plausibility structures” and a sexed economy grounded in a perpetuation of Plato’s receptacle strangely arising from an interpretation of the “inerrant” biblical text.