The Fall of Roe : America, Abortion and the Fight for a Nation’s Soul

Women today are more equal than at any other time in American history.The #MeToo movement has transformed American workplaces.Christian power is weakening as the US grows increasingly secular.Democrats currently control Washington. And yet in this moment of growing equality and diminishing religiosity, women have lost one of the cornerstone achievements of liberal politics: the right to access an abortion.It's easy to characterise abortion politics as a familiar, decades-long battle- evangelicals against feminists, Republican states versus Democratic states, grassroots fighting elites.That kind of political thinking misunderstands the current moment.Abortion is, of course, about a right to terminate a pregnancy.But it's also the stage where the United States works through some of its most fundamental cultural and moral debates.In THE FALL OF ROE, two top New York Times journalists, Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer, have written the definitive book on the end of Roe, revealing how the stra