How the anti-abortion movement influenced the courts, campaign finances and the GOP

According to legal historian Mary Ziegler, the fall of Roe v. Wade was decades in the making.

How the anti-abortion movement influenced the courts, campaign finances and the GOP (V2)
Anti-abortion protesters celebrate following Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, federally protected right to abortion, in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022. Gemunu Amarasinghe / Associated Press
How the anti-abortion movement influenced the courts, campaign finances and the GOP (V2)
Anti-abortion protesters celebrate following Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, federally protected right to abortion, in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022. Gemunu Amarasinghe / Associated Press

How the anti-abortion movement influenced the courts, campaign finances and the GOP

According to legal historian Mary Ziegler, the fall of Roe v. Wade was decades in the making.

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In her new book Dollars for Life, Mary Ziegler outlines the how the anti-abortion movement pushed the courts to the right and persuaded the Republican Party and voters to take on their cause.

Reset digs into the decades of organizing that led up to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

GUEST: Mary Ziegler, law professor at the University of California, Davis; author of Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment