This paper is based on an ethnographic research on the Italian pro-life movement. In order to explain women pro-life activism it is necessary to take into account not only their social, political and religious background, but also their affective, sexual and procreation stories. Pro-life women have not made the same choices: some have children, some not, most of them are married and have a conservative life styles (stay-at-home mums) but others had children out of wedlock or had an abortion. We find the single women without children mostly in the political area of the main pro-life movement and the stay-at-home mums mostly in it’s care area (pregnancy crisis centers). We found the women with unconventional procreative-sexual stories in the more radical movements trying to challenge the main and moderate one. To explain this we must take into account that for these women, as for feminists, the personal is political too. Therefor we need to bring conservative sexualities back into intersectional analysis.
