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From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. Coming up on Forum, Oklahoma last week became the first state to ban almost all abortions

from the moment of conception.

And at least 20 more states are poised to outlaw or restrict abortion if, as expected, the

Supreme Court overrules Roe v. Wade this month.

How do we get to this point?

That's the question legal historian Mary Ziegler answers in her new book,

Dollars for Life, the anti-abortion movement, and the fall of the Republican establishment,

all about the ways extreme anti-abortion groups joined forces with and ultimately co-opted the GOP.

That's next after this news.

This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim.

In less than a month, the U.S. Supreme Court is widely expected to take away the constitutional right to end a pregnancy.

And nearly half of all U.S. states are ready to enact bans or even criminalize abortions once that happens, states that are all controlled by

Republicans. There was a time not that long ago when abortion was less polarizing and the

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