This is NPR's book of the day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. When the writer Lainey Zumis was pursuing

in vitro fertilization, she started doing some research, and she came upon various fetal personhood

movements in the United States. In her novel Red Clocks, Zumis imagines a world where these

legal efforts pass, and she spoke with NPR Scott

Simon about the questions she was dealing with when writing it and about what it meant to be a mother.

But first, with all the news right now about Texas and abortion rights, NPR's Michelle Martin

spoke with the writer Joshua Prager about someone who's been so often lost in the debates over

Roe v. Wade, the baby who is at the center of the trial. Prager's book is called The Family Row,

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The Texas law that severely restricts access to abortion in that state has set off a furious round of public debate and private legal strategizing.

But it is only the latest effort in a decades-long battle to overturn the landmark Supreme Court case

legalizing most abortions, Roe v. Wade.

That case has been a touchstone for

both sides of the abortion issue since it was delivered nearly 50 years ago. And yet, for all the

attention Roe v. Wade has received over the years, some facts about the case remain obscure to much

of the public, such as the fact that the pregnancy at the heart of the legal dispute did not end

with an abortion.

A baby girl was born, and a few knew who or where she was, and after a series of disturbing encounters, she preferred to keep it that way.

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