Mary Ziegler presents "Dollars for Life," with Julie F. Kay

Two experts join us for an urgent conversation about reproductive freedom, in view of the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Legal historian Mary Ziegler presents her new book, "Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment," in conversation with Julie F. Kay (co-author of "Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom"). This virtual event took place on Zoom. To purchase a copy of DOLLARS FOR LIFE (and support Community Bookstore): www.communitybookstore.net/bo...
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About the "Dollars for Life:"
A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the antiabortion movement remade the Republican Party.
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.
About our guests:
Mary Ziegler is the Daniel P.S. Paul Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School; she will join the UC Davis School of Law faculty in fall 2022. One of the world’s leading historians of the abortion debate in the United States, she is the author of four books on social movement struggles around abortion, including the award-winning "After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate" (Harvard University Press, 2015) and "Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present" (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Her new book, "Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment," was published by Yale University Press in June 2022 and received positive review from Kirkus, the New York Times, and Publishers’ Weekly. She often contributes to leading media outlets around the world, including the ABC, the Atlantic, BBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, NPR, PBS NewsHour, and the Washington Post.
Julie F. Kay is well known as a litigator and voice advocating for reproductive freedom worldwide. She combines legal expertise with personal narratives to bring an understanding of the legal issues and the pressing need for activism that is inclusive and human-rights based. Kay is the attorney who designed and litigated the landmark abortion rights case ABC v. Ireland before the European Court of Human Rights. Her new book, "Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom," co-authored with Kathryn Kolbert, proposes new strategies inspired by medical advances, state-level protections, and human rights activists in the US and globally.