Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision
legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade continues to make headlines. After
Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate cuts through the myths
and misunderstandings to present a clear-eyed account of cultural
and political responses to the landmark 1973 ruling in the decade
that followed. The grassroots activists who shaped the discussion
after Roe, Mary Ziegler shows, were far more fluid and diverse than
the partisans dominating the debate today. In the early years after
the decision, advocates on either side of the abortion battle
sought common ground on issues from pregnancy discrimination to
fetal research. Drawing on archives and more than 100 interviews
with key participants, Ziegler's revelations complicate the view
that abortion rights proponents were insensitive to larger
questions of racial and class injustice, and expose as caricature
the idea that abortion opponents were inherently antifeminist. But
over time, "pro-abortion" and "anti-abortion" positions hardened
into "pro-choice" and "pro-life" categories in response to
political pressures and compromises. This increasingly contentious
back-and-forth produced the interpretation now taken for
granted-that Roe was primarily a ruling on a woman's right to
choose. Peering beneath the surface of social-movement struggles in
the 1970s, After Roe reveals how actors on the left and the right
have today made Roe a symbol for a spectrum of fervently held
political beliefs.
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