I am pleased to welcome Mary Ziegler to the ELB Book Corner, author of the new book, Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment (Yale, 2022). But from the 1960s onward, the antiabortion movement saw the protection of the fetal person as far more important than popular politics. By the 2010s, antiabortion groups had tied their campaign finance work to efforts to what they framed as ballot integrity work. The movement’s involvement with voting and campaign finance in part reflects broader changes to the Republican Party. Over the past half century, the abortion struggle has become a battle about not just reproductive rights but voting rights and campaign finance.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 09, 2023 03:59 UTC