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The Research Handbook on International Abortion Law provides an
in-depth, multidisciplinary study of abortion law around the world,
presenting a snapshot of global policies during a time of radical
change. With leading scholars from every continent, Mary Ziegler
illuminates key forces that shaped the past and will influence an
unpredictable future. In addition to basic, fundamental concepts,
this Research Handbook offers valuable insight into new
developments in law and medical practice, from medication abortion
to the rise of illiberal democracy, and explores the evolution of
social movements for and against illegal abortion in a wide variety
of national contexts. This is a crucial reference for students,
scholars, professors, and policymakers interested in the
complexities of abortion law and politics, and the influences that
are crossing borders and shaping the present moment.
A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American
politics that shows how the anti-abortion movement remade the
Republican Party "A timely and expert guide to one of today's most
hot-button political issues."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A
sober, knowledgeable scholarly analysis of a timely issue."-Kirkus
Reviews "[Ziegler's] argument [is] that, over the course of
decades, the anti-abortion movement laid the groundwork for an
insurgent candidate like Trump."-Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
The modern Republican Party is the party of conservative
Christianity and big business-two things so closely identified with
the contemporary GOP that we hardly notice the strangeness of the
pairing. Legal historian Mary Ziegler traces how the anti-abortion
movement helped to forge and later upend this alliance. Beginning
with the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Buckley v. Valeo,
right-to-lifers fought to gain power in the GOP by changing how
campaign spending-and the First Amendment-work. The anti-abortion
movement helped to revolutionize the rules of money in U.S.
politics and persuaded conservative voters to fixate on the federal
courts. Ultimately, the campaign finance landscape that abortion
foes created fueled the GOP's embrace of populism and the rise of
Donald Trump. Ziegler offers a surprising new view of the slow
drift to extremes in American politics-and explains how it had
everything to do with the strange intersection of right-to-life
politics and campaign spending.
- Contains primary source documents - Will engage students on both
side of the pro-life and pro-choice debate - Synthesizes a huge
body of research in an easily digestible way for students
- Contains primary source documents - Will engage students on both
side of the pro-life and pro-choice debate - Synthesizes a huge
body of research in an easily digestible way for students
A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American
politics that shows how the anti-abortion movement remade the
Republican Party  “A timely and expert guide to one of
today’s most hot-button political issues.”—Publishers Weekly
(starred review)  “A sober, knowledgeable scholarly
analysis of a timely issue.”—Kirkus Reviews Â
“[Ziegler’s] argument [is] that, over the course of decades,
the anti-abortion movement laid the groundwork for an insurgent
candidate like Trump.”—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times Â
The modern Republican Party is the party of conservative
Christianity and big business—two things so closely identified
with the contemporary GOP that we hardly notice the strangeness of
the pairing. Legal historian Mary Ziegler traces how the
anti-abortion movement helped to forge and later upend this
alliance. Beginning with the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in
Buckley v. Valeo, right-to-lifers fought to gain power in the GOP
by changing how campaign spending—and the First Amendment—work.
The anti-abortion movement helped to revolutionize the rules of
money in U.S. politics and persuaded conservative voters to fixate
on the federal courts. Ultimately, the campaign finance landscape
that abortion foes created fueled the GOP’s embrace of populism
and the rise of Donald Trump. Ziegler offers a surprising new view
of the slow drift to extremes in American politics—and explains
how it had everything to do with the strange intersection of
right-to-life politics and campaign spending.
For most Americans today, Roe v. Wade concerns just one thing: the
right to choose abortion. But the Supreme Court’s decision once
meant much more. The justices ruled that the right to privacy
encompassed the abortion decision. Grassroots activists and
politicians used Roe—and popular interpretations of it—as raw
material in answering much larger questions: Is there a right to
privacy? For whom, and what is protected? As Mary Ziegler
demonstrates, Roe’s privacy rationale attracted a wide range of
citizens demanding social changes unrelated to abortion. Movements
questioning hierarchies based on sexual orientation, profession,
class, gender, race, and disability drew on Roe to argue for an
autonomy that would give a voice to the vulnerable. So did
advocates seeking expanded patient rights and liberalized
euthanasia laws. Right-leaning groups also invoked Roe’s right to
choose, but with a different agenda: to attack government
involvement in consumer protection, social welfare, racial justice,
and other aspects of American life. In the 1980s, seeking to unify
a fragile coalition, the Republican Party popularized the idea that
Roe was a symbol of judicial tyranny, discouraging anyone from
relying on the decision to frame their demands. But Beyond Abortion
illuminates the untapped potential of arguments that still resonate
today. By recovering the diversity of responses to Roe, and the
legal and cultural battles it energized, Ziegler challenges readers
to come to terms with the uncomfortable fact that privacy belongs
to no party or cause.
The leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings
associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history Â
“Ziegler sets a brisk pace but delivers substantial depth. . . .
A must-read for those seeking to understand what comes
next.”—Publishers Weekly  What explains the insistent
pull of Roe v. Wade? Abortion law expert Mary Ziegler argues that
the U.S. Supreme Court decision, which decriminalized abortion in
1973 and was overturned in 2022, had a hold on us that was not
simply the result of polarized abortion politics. Rather, Roe took
on meanings far beyond its original purpose of protecting the
privacy of the doctor-patient relationship. It forced us to
confront questions about sexual violence, judicial activism and
restraint, racial justice, religious liberty, the role of science
in politics, and much more. Â In this history of what the
Supreme Court’s best-known decision has meant, Ziegler identifies
the inconsistencies and unsettled issues in our abortion politics.
She urges us to rediscover the nuance that has long resided where
we would least expect to find it—in the meaning of Roe itself.
With the Supreme Court likely to reverse Roe v. Wade, the landmark
abortion decision, American debate appears fixated on clashing
rights. The first comprehensive legal history of a vital period,
Abortion and the Law in America illuminates an entirely different
and unexpected shift in the terms of debate. Rather than simply
championing rights, those on opposing sides battled about the
policy costs and benefits of abortion and laws restricting it. This
mostly unknown turn deepened polarization in ways many have missed.
Never abandoning their constitutional demands, pro-choice and
pro-life advocates increasingly disagreed about the basic facts.
Drawing on unexplored records and interviews with key participants,
Ziegler complicates the view that the Supreme Court is responsible
for the escalation of the conflict. A gripping account of
social-movement divides and crucial legal strategies, this book
delivers a definitive recent history of an issue that transforms
American law and politics to this day.
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.
With the Supreme Court likely to reverse Roe v. Wade, the landmark
abortion decision, American debate appears fixated on clashing
rights. The first comprehensive legal history of a vital period,
Abortion and the Law in America illuminates an entirely different
and unexpected shift in the terms of debate. Rather than simply
championing rights, those on opposing sides battled about the
policy costs and benefits of abortion and laws restricting it. This
mostly unknown turn deepened polarization in ways many have missed.
Never abandoning their constitutional demands, pro-choice and
pro-life advocates increasingly disagreed about the basic facts.
Drawing on unexplored records and interviews with key participants,
Ziegler complicates the view that the Supreme Court is responsible
for the escalation of the conflict. A gripping account of
social-movement divides and crucial legal strategies, this book
delivers a definitive recent history of an issue that transforms
American law and politics to this day.
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