Commonwealth Club of California PodcastMary Ziegler: How the Anti-Abortion Movement Remade America
1h 6min2022 JUL 21
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UC Davis Professor of Law MaryZiegler is one of the world’s leading authorities on the U.S. abortion wars and the history of reproductive rights in this country. Since the leak of a draft of a Supreme Court majority opinion that would overturnRoe v. Wadeand the guaranteed right to an abortion, Ziegler has been one of the most sought-after experts on this issue. Ziegler's timely new bookDollars for Life: the Antiabortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment, explores how the antiabortion movement remade the Republican Party and led to this current historic moment. She traces how the anti-abortion movement helped to revolutionize the rules of money in U.S. politics and persuaded conservative voters to focus on the federal courts. Ziegleroffers a surprising new view of the slow drift to extremes in American politics and says it had everything to do with the strange intersection of right-to-life politics and campaign spending. Her previous books have explored the legal...