In the two years since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion,

conservative lawmakers and activists have continued efforts to reshape or limit reproductive rights.

Laura Barone Lopez takes a closer look at the reshape or limit reproductive rights.

Laura Barone Lopez takes a closer look at that effort.

She recently spoke with New York Times journalists Lisa Larer and Elizabeth Diaz,

authors of the new book, The Fall of Row, The Rise of a New America.

Elizabeth, Lisa, thank you for joining the News Hour.

I want to start by reading a piece of your book in which you write the fall of row was the culmination

of a targeted and in key moments startlingly lucky campaign over a tumultuous

decade by an under- radar network of elite conservative

lawyers, Christian activists, and Republican politicians in key positions of power built over years.

That network were determined to end abortion rights and remake American culture.

They had found the levers of power and pulled them.

Who is this network? Who are the leaders of this network?

And when did it actually start 2016 or earlier?

Our book really looks at what we have taken to calling the final decade of the Roe era, this 10-year period between

President Obama's re-election and the decision that eventually ended Roe. And we

look at that period because that President Obama's re-election was the lowest point for these anti-abortion activists.

It was the first point in history where conservative Christians had become a minority, a slim, slim,

minority in American life, and it looked like the culture

was moving another way.

You know, gay marriage was about to be legalized.

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