Where The Anti-Abortion Movement Is Heading

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🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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How did we get to the point where Roe v. Wade is likely to be overturned, just as we approach its 50 anniversary? We talk with law professor Mary Ziegler. She's written several books about the abortion wars. Her new one, Dollars for Life, is about how the anti-abortion movement helped push the courts to the right, and upended the GOP establishment.

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast comes from the New Bower Family Foundation, supporting
0:04.7	WHY Wise Fresh Air and its commitment to sharing ideas and encouraging meaningful conversation.
0:11.6	This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross.
0:14.2	The Supreme Court is wrapping up its term and it's expected that the court will overturn
0:18.9	Roe v Wade.
0:20.3	A draft of Justice Alito's majority opinion that was leaked early last month would end
0:25.4	the federally guaranteed constitutional right to abortion and allow states to write their
0:30.2	own abortion laws.
0:32.1	This is happening as we approach the 50th anniversary of Roe.
0:35.6	We're going to talk about how we got here and what might happen next.
0:39.3	My guest Mary Ziegler has written several books and many articles on op eds about the debates
0:44.2	and battles over abortion.
0:46.5	She says overturning Roe isn't the final goal of the anti-abortion movement.
0:50.8	Her new book is called Dollars for Life, the anti-abortion movement and the fall of the
0:56.2	Republican establishment.
0:58.0	It's about how the anti-abortion movement became a major force within the Republican
1:02.1	Party and in the process transformed the party opening the door to insurgents and populists
1:08.2	like Donald Trump.
1:09.8	Ziegler is a professor of law at the University of California Davis.
1:13.7	We recorded our interview yesterday.
1:16.6	Mary Ziegler, welcome to Fresh Air.
1:18.4	Justice Alito's draft said that Roe was a grudelessly wrong from the start.
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