Would the continuation of nationalism and eugenics leads to political schism for the right wing?

You can use whatever pod you think is best for this. For me I’m going with no world wars or less destructive ones but on to the question. Without nationalism and eugenics being made taboo as a result of the world wars, would we eventually see a schism between nationalist and religious right wingers? Wouldn’t continued eugenics mean more people on the right who are for stuff like abortion? Wouldn’t that cause issues later on especially with the Catholic Church? How would the church react to both the right and left being for something like abortion even those both support it for different reasons. Also how would religion institutions react to the right becoming increasingly secular and at odds with religion? The Catholic church does have a long history about being against certain forms of nationalism and it was always against Eugenics. How does this impact culture and how will society develops in the 1900 century if this is possible?
 
Eugenics was based on incomplete/incorrect science of how inheritance worked in the early 20th century. You know, that and scientific racism. Once DNA is discovered, it will completely discredit the theory. Though I suppose the former supporters of of Eugenics could have turned to different means of population control provided they had the political power.
 
How would the church react to both the right and left being for something like abortion even those both support it for different reasons. Also how would religion institutions react to the right becoming increasingly secular and at odds with religion?

It might depend what sort of existential threat the Church perceives from the left. If it looks as if some sort of rabidly anti-clerical bolshevik-style movement could come to power in the west and ship all believers off to the camps, and the only people who could stop them were the malthusian right, the Church probably wouldn't be in much position to start dictating terms for an alliance.

"Ya don't like our plans to pay poor teenagers to have abortions and get sterilized? Fine, you can take your chances with the commisars." Can't see the Catholics pushing back too hard against that ultimatum.
 
Eugenics was based on incomplete/incorrect science of how inheritance worked in the early 20th century. You know, that and scientific racism. Once DNA is discovered, it will completely discredit the theory. Though I suppose the former supporters of of Eugenics could have turned to different means of population control provided they had the political power.
That can easily be faced out given time and without people like the Nazis turning people off it. Eugenics doesn’t have to be always racist or base in racial science. Weaving out people with serious disabilities would be easily adaptable to a modern context. For example, most down syndrome kids are aborted currently in otl because it can be detected while still in the womb. That can technically count as a form of eugenics. For conservative that means less people on welfare. It would have heavy elements of classism those but that is still around. Forced sterilization is probably done away with but stuff like providing cheap birth control and abortions to discourage poor people from having too many kids is possible. Gene slicing of fetuses might also become a thing later on. Could eugenics become the basis conservative environmentalism who use it as an alternate option to liberal ideas about environmentalism?
 
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